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4.1 Starting Bro

Bro is automatically started at boot time via the bro.rc script (located in BROHOME/etc and /usr/local/etc/rc.d on FreeBSD, or /usr/init.d on Linux). To run this script by hand, type:

     bro.rc start

or

     bro.rc checkpoint

or

     bro.rc stop

Use checkpoint to restart a running Bro, loading a new policy file.