[OISF/outreachy] Help needed in basic setup of suricata

[megha Varshney]

Greetings,
I took help from the below article in order to set up Suricata.
https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/projects/suricata/wiki/Ubuntu_Installation_from_GIT

On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 18:37, Shivani Bhardwaj <
sbhardwaj at openinfosecfoundation.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 3:29 PM megha Varshney via Outreachy
> <outreachy at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> > Please help me with the below error.
> > megha at megha-Inspiron-3542:~/suricata/oisf$ sudo suricata -c
> /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -i wlan0 --init-errors-fatal
> > Error opening file /usr/local/var/log/suricata/suricata.log
> > [23826] 18/3/2019 -- 15:25:27 - (suricata.c:1058) <Notice> (LogVersion)
> -- This is Suricata version 5.0.0-dev (rev a69afd5cf)
> > [23826] 18/3/2019 -- 15:25:27 - (suricata.c:2691) <Error>
> (PostConfLoadedSetup) -- [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_LOGDIR_CONFIG(116)] - The logging
> directory "/usr/local/var/log/suricata/" supplied by
> /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml (default-log-dir) doesn't exist. Shutting down
> the engine
> >
> Seems like the logging directory menioned in suricata.yaml's
> "default-log-dir" section does not exist. This should usually not be a
> problem and is configured automatically, do you mind explaining what
> commands did you use to install it?
> You could go ahead and create a "suricata" directory in your
> /usr/local/var/log
>
> > Regards,
> > Megha
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>
> --
> Shivani
>
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