Re: stop that pesky logging

[Erek Adams <erek () theadamsfamily net>]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 Mike_Sands () elementk com wrote:

> Sorry for the previously miss-labeled subject.

Hrmmm...  I might could add that to the penalty list.  ;-)

> I've been running snort 1.8.3 with demarc logging to a MySQL database.
> Unfortunately when I start demarc/snort the pig insists on logging to both
> my database and /var/log/snort. I would really like to just log to the
> database for performance/diskspace/management reasons but I can't seem to
> stop the other logging. On reviewing my snort.conf file I only have the
> configuration set to log to the database and I'm not setting this via the
> command line.
>
> Is there a way to explicitly tell snort not to log to /var/log/snort?

First:  I've never used demarc.   I might be off base with some of this...

> From what I've heard on the list, Demarc does some odd things to be "helpful".
Somewhere within the configs, doesn't it have a 'commandline switches'
setting?  Check for that...  IIRC, it wants to do 'things for you.'

Cheers!

-----
Erek Adams
Nifty-Type-Guy
TheAdamsFamily.Net


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