[Oisf-users] Suricata versions (4.1.2 and 3.1) will not run after initial install on CENTOS 6.10 with SC_ERR_PCRE_COMPILE error

Peter Manev petermanev at gmail.com
Tue Jan 1 09:14:45 UTC 2019



> On 30 Dec 2018, at 16:57, MATT DOUgherty <doughertysnp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I get a PCRE compile error that prevents any other interesting log data.   Does anyone have an idea of that the could be?
> 
> This is a clean install from source on CENTOS 6.10 with several versions of Suricata.  I have snort installed.  Is the existing snort install messing it up?
> 
> 
> [root at newfw suricata-4.1.2]# /usr/bin/suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -i eth1
> 30/12/2018 -- 04:51:07 - <Notice> - This is Suricata version 4.1.2 RELEASE
> 30/12/2018 -- 04:51:07 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_PCRE_COMPILE(5)] - pcre compile of "\S[0-9A-z_]+[.][A-z0-9_+.]+$" failed at offset 12: POSIX collating elements are not supported
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Do you have the same error if you start/load with 0 rules ? (You can try adding “-S /dev/null” to the starting line, could be rule related I was thinking )



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