RE: output alert_syslog

[Steve Halligan <giermo () geeksquad com>]

You need to add a local5.none to the messages line in
syslog.conf

...I think...

> Hi,
>
> I've configured snort 1.9.0 to use syslog and edited 
> syslog.conf so it logs
> local5.alert to /var/log/snort.alert but it's logging to
that file AND
> /var/log/messages. I'd like to log to snort.alert only.
>
> Here is the relevant information:
>
> snort.conf:
>
> [...]
> output alert_syslog: LOG_LOCAL5 LOG_ALERT
> output log_unified: filename snort.log, limit 128
> [...]
>
>
> syslog.conf:
>
> *.err;*.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err   
> /var/log/messages
> security.*
/var/log/security
> auth.notice;auth.info;authpriv.info
/var/log/auth.log
> mail.info
/var/log/maillog
> cron.*
/var/log/cron
> *.emerg                                         *
> local5.alert
/var/log/snort.alert
> console.info
/var/log/console.log
> # ls -l /var/log/snort.alert
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2015 Jan 14 16:45 snort.alert
>
> # ls -l /var/log/snort/
> -rw-r--r--  1 snort  snort  489509 Jan 14 16:54 scan.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 snort  snort    1119 Jan 14 16:45
snort.alert
> -rw-r--r--  1 snort  snort     452 Jan 14 12:56
snort.log.1042555093
> -rw-r--r--  1 snort  snort     514 Jan 14 12:58
snort.log.1042556289
> -rw-r--r--  1 snort  snort      24 Jan 14 16:40
snort.log.1042569610
> I'm running snort with this command line:
>
>  /usr/local/bin/snort -D -c /usr/local/etc/snort.conf -i
fxp0 
> -p -z -u snort \
>  -g snort -m 022
>
> Thanks in advance (and sorry if it is obvious),
>
> --
> Giovanni P. Tirloni
> gpt () tirloni org
>
>
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