Hi,

Trying to get Snort running with Debian. I got all the lastest patches I need. I got everything set up up to a certain point. I am trying to run this command.

/usr/local/bin/snort -Dq -u snort -g snort -c /etc/snort/etc/snort.conf

It runs, then I look into the syslog and see that it can't run all the way. I get this error code..

FATAL ERROR: Undefined variable name: (/etc/snort/rules/local.rules:: HOME

I was trying to set up some basic rules I guess for this to run.
alert icmp any any -> $HOME_NET any (msg:"ICMP test"; dsize:8; itype:8; sid: 10000001 and
alert tcp any any -> any any (msg:"test"; sid:1000002


Just something basic to see if this thing works. I have not set up mysql or BASE / ACID , or Barnyard. I did get the snort-snapshot-CURRENT.rules and snort-2.8.3.1

Any help on this would be greatly helpful. This is my first time setting up Snort and I still can't seem to figure it out. Plus I am new to Linux as well.