RE: Snort Logs

[Demetri Mouratis <dmourati () cm math uiuc edu>]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Keaton, Lindamaria wrote:

> How will a new file generate? How I see this, it will kill snort but not
> restart it. Will I then have to reboot the system, in order for a new
> alert file to generate. Is that correct, or am I completely wrong?
>
> This is what I'm trying to accomplish. I want the alert file to either
> compress and move to a different directory, but then start a new alert
> file without kill snort. Is there a way to do this?

No.  You have to at least HUP snort to make it let go of the file handle
for /var/log/snort/alert.1 after you call logrotate.
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Demetri Mouratis
dmourati () linfactory com



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