[OISF/outreachy] Issue with the Ubuntu setup

[Shivani Bhardwaj]

Hi, Riju!

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 3:51 AM Riju Khatri via Outreachy
<outreachy at lists.openinfosecfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I had my Suricata setup on a Mac and I was facing some trouble with that, so I am trying to switch over to Ubuntu, since I recently learned that this is the recommended way.
> I am stuck at one of the steps under Rule Management with Oinkmaster where we have to run:
>
> sudo oinkmaster -C /etc/oinkmaster.conf -o /etc/suricata/rules
>
oinkmaster is not our tool of updation. Could you please tell me where
you are following the installation guide from?
You do not need to use oinkmaster for Suricata. We have our own tool
for rule management called Suricata-update
(https://github.com/oisf/suricata-update). Please use that.

> and we expect that in the new rules directory a classification.config and a reference.config can be found.
>
> But after I ran that command, I did find a classification.config there but not any reference.config.
> Would someone know why this must have happened?
>
> I am unsure about how the contents of this new one differ from the contents of reference.config under /etc/suricata, so would copying the file from this location to /etc/suricata/rules work?
>
>
> Thank you,
> Riju
>
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Shivani
Junior Developer, OISF