[Snort-inline-users] FATAL ERROR: /etc/snort_inline/snort_inline.conf(9) => NULL rule type!

[Wismin E. <wi...@ya...>]

Hello Everybody,
   I hope somebody could help me with the following
problem with snort_inline startup. 

after I convert the rules using snortconfig-1.9 
(from honeynet.org), I start the snort_inline 
... last lines from snort_inline.sh ..

$SNORT -D -d -c /etc/snort_inline/snort_inline.conf -Q
-i eth0 -l $DIR/$DATE -t $DIR/$DATE

then I check the snort_inline process is not running.
I've verified the rule files location in
/etc/snort_inline/snort_inline.conf (where I copied
the rules result from snortconfig-1.9). 
I've also make sure the variable $HOME_NET is declared
in snort_inline.conf  (original file has $HONEYNET, I
added also the $HOME_NET with the same value)

from /var/log/messages, I found: 
Mar 25 00:52:51 gateway-1 snort_inline: Initializing
daemon mode 
Mar 25 00:52:51 gateway-1 snort_inline: PID path stat
checked out ok, PID path set to /var/run/ 
Mar 25 00:52:51 gateway-1 snort_inline: Writing PID
"2348" to file "/var/run//snort_inline.pid" 
Mar 25 00:52:51 gateway-1 snort_inline: FATAL ERROR:
/etc/snort_inline/snort_inline.conf(9) => NULL rule
type! 

thank you very much in advance.

best regards,

wismin 

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