An error occurred: ERROR: /etc/snort//etc/snort/rules/app-detect.rules(0) Unable to open rules file "/etc/snort//etc/snort/rules/app-detect.rules": No such file or directory.

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Checking latest MD5 for snortrules-snapshot-29180.tar.gz....
Rules tarball download of snortrules-snapshot-29180.tar.gz....
They Match
Done!
IP Blocklist download of https://snort.org/downloads/ip-block-list....
Reading IP List...
Prepping rules from snortrules-snapshot-29180.tar.gz for work....
Done!
Reading rules...
Generating Stub Rules....
An error occurred: ERROR: /etc/snort//etc/snort/rules/app-detect.rules(0) Unable to open rules file "/etc/snort//etc/snort/rules/app-detect.rules": No such file or directory.

An error occurred: Fatal Error, Quitting..

Done

Reading rules...
Reading rules...
Writing Blocklist File /etc/snort/rules/iplists/default.blocklist....
Writing Blocklist Version 858862388 to /etc/snort/rules/iplists/IPRVersion.dat....
Modifying Sids....
Done!
Processing /etc/snort/enablesid.conf....
Modified 0 rules
Skipped 0 rules (already disabled)
Done
Processing /etc/snort/dropsid.conf....
Modified 0 rules
Skipped 0 rules (already disabled)
Done
Processing /etc/snort/disablesid.conf....
Modified 0 rules
Skipped 0 rules (already disabled)
Done
Setting Flowbit State....
Done
Writing /etc/snort/rules/snort.rules....
Done
Generating sid-msg.map....
Done
Writing v1 /etc/snort/sid-msg.map....
Done
Writing /var/log/sid_changes.log....
Done
Rule Stats...
New:-------42585
Deleted:---0
Enabled Rules:----10120
Dropped Rules:----0
Disabled Rules:---32465
Total Rules:------42585
IP Blocklist Stats...
Total IPs:-----1187

Done
Please review /var/log/sid_changes.log for additional details
Fly Piggy Fly!

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Some variables are causing you to have duplicate paths.
Set them to relative paths only.
check lines 104 105 and 106 in your /etc/snort/snort.conf
They should look like this.
var RULE_PATH rules
var SO_RULE_PATH so_rules
var PREPROC_RULE_PATH preproc_rules