Re: Suricata not starting

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Timothy M Butterworth wrote: 
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 2:10 PM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
> > What happens when you run the daemon by hand?
> >
> > -dsr-
> >
> 
> suricata -c /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml -s signatures.rules -i wlo1
> Error opening file /var/log/suricata//suricata.log
> 10/3/2023 -- 16:08:51 - <Notice> - This is Suricata version 6.0.10 RELEASE
> running in SYSTEM mode
> 10/3/2023 -- 16:08:51 - <Error> - [ERRCODE: SC_ERR_LOGDIR_CONFIG(116)] - The
> logging directory "/var/log/suricata/" supplied by
> /etc/suricata/suricata.yaml (default-log-dir) is not writable. Shutting
> down the engine

You have discovered at least the first problem, then.

You can create and permission the directory appropriately, or
change the config.

-dsr-