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    Snort 2.9.2.3 pkg v. 2.5.1 service fails overnight, unable to restart

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      Cino
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      dumb question, is everyone seeing updated rules? Since Sunday, i've had the same hash:

      SNORT.ORG >>>   "7017498f85ec6d0fc34c904c950ed8c1"
      EMERGINGTHREATS.NET >>>   13611f17ed1c94d40c8f0a78566dbb90

      I've been deleting the hash to force a manual update.. The auto update kicks off but nothing is downloaded since there isn't a new hash

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        caustic386
        last edited by

        @Cino:

        dumb question, are is everyone seeing updated rules? Since Sunday, i've had the same hash:

        SNORT.ORG >>>   "7017498f85ec6d0fc34c904c950ed8c1"
        EMERGINGTHREATS.NET >>>   13611f17ed1c94d40c8f0a78566dbb90

        I've been deleting the hash to force a manual update.. The auto update kicks off but nothing is downloaded since there isn't a new hash

        Sunday-Monday was the only day snort did not fail during updates, so it's possible there just weren't any that night.  I can't account for Monday, however.

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          judex
          last edited by

          You can check the actual MD5 Hash of "Only Registered Users" here:

          http://www.snort.org/downloads/1778/show_md5

          It is still:
          "7017498f85ec6d0fc34c904c950ed8c1"

          I am also checking that, because I also suspect snort to only update ET rules automatically. Manual updates work so far.

          Greets, Judex

          2.1-RELEASE (amd64)
          built on Wed Sep 11 18:17:48 EDT 2013
          FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p11

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            Cino
            last edited by

            auto update finally kicked for snort for me… 2 test boxes fresh installs of pfsense and snort...

            box with using snort and et with sensitive data preprocessor enabled: failed to reload, the usually error everyone is seeing
            box with using snort and et with sensitive data preprocessor disabled: reloaded fine

            IMHO, I feel the sensitive preprocessor option should be removed from snort until a working fix can be applied to the package. or a warning that auto updates should be disabled and and to run updates manually

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              caustic386
              last edited by

              Finally getting back to the original post, I think this is what's causing the issue:

              kernel: pid 31475 (snort), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space

              As a test, I disabled updates.  As expected, snort ran fine until I did a manual update.  The error above was what showed up after running the update.  Restarting snort by hand brought success.

              Is the swap space error helpful?  I do not have a swap partition on my install, as I have significant excess RAM.

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