Sendig alerts to another system

[pierangelo motta <pierangelo_motta () yahoo it>]

Hi all, my first post.. forgive my english and any
dumb question.. so..

I got snort up and runnig, with mysql and acid.
It works fine :)

The problem is I have to mail alerts to another system
because I usually won't access the NIDS.
It should be the NIDS to contact me.
I made a script so the NIDS can connect to another
machine(via ftp) on internet and (auto)update rules.
Another to let me know if snort's alive..

But how can it send me everyday alerts?
I'd like to have alerts in a tcpdump format( I read
it's much better, isn't it?).

The only place where snort logs alerts is the
database, and I was not able to make snort log alert
in a file(that tcpdump or ethereal could read) too.

Better turn off databasse? And log using something
like this?
snort -c snort.conf -i eth0 -g snort -D -b -l
var/log/snort -L my_alert_file -A full

Then NIDS will mail me "my_alert_file"..

If you want to know anything more..

thank you in advance. 
             Pierangelo


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