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Re: No alerts
From: Erek Adams <erek () theadamsfamily net>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 13:17:55 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Bill McCarty wrote:
I downloaded and compiled Snort 1.8.4, replacing the 1.8.3-5 RPM version. It runs and logs fine, but doesn't generate alerts -- I don't mean SMB alerts, just plain Fast and Full alerts. However, switching back to the old binary -- without otherwise tweaking the configuration -- yields alerts once again.
First off, define what you mean by alerts. Do you mean the /var/log/snort/alert file? Binary logging? Syslog Alerts?
I don't find any compile-time configuration options necessary to support alerts. But, perhaps I missed one. Does 1.8.4 require command-line specification of alert-related options that could previously be specified in snort.conf? The invocation is: daemon /usr/sbin/snort \ -D \ -c $CDIR \ -i $INTERFACE \ -l $DIRBASE/$WEEK/$DATE \ -u $USER \ -h $HOMENET and snort.conf has: output alert_syslog: LOG_LOCAL1 LOG_INFO output log_tcpdump: snort.log output alert_full: /space1/snort/snort-full output alert_fast: /space1/snort/snort-fast
Well... That's a bit of overkill. If you are going to log in binary, there's no need to burn CPU logging any other way. I'd remove everything but log_tcpdump, then strace the binary and see what it's trying to open. It might be something as simple as permissions or a umask issue from one version to another. I've upgraded many times and never had any issues with alerting/logging stopping. Hope that helps! ----- Erek Adams Nifty-Type-Guy TheAdamsFamily.Net _______________________________________________ Snort-users mailing list Snort-users () lists sourceforge net Go to this URL to change user options or unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/snort-users Snort-users list archive: http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=snort-users
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