I am getting a Snort ’Oink Oink’ error, how do I fix it?

If you are getting the following error:

Loading /var/ipcop/snort/oinkmaster.conf  
 
/usr/local/bin/oinkmaster.pl: Error: the output directory "/etc/snort/rules" isn’t writable by you.  
 
Oink oink. Exiting...

You need to do the following:

• Connect to IPCOP via SSH using port 222
  (on Windows connect using Putty [see Running Commands on IPCOP Tutorial])
• At the console, run

      cd /etc/snort  
      chown snort:snort rules  
      cd rules  
      chown snort:snort *.*  
      chown snort:snort *