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 startor
bro.rc checkpointor
bro.rc stopUse
checkpoint
to restart a running Bro, loading a new policy file.