Re: Snort + Acid

["AJ Butcher, Information Systems and Computing" <Alex.Butcher () bristol ac uk>]

--On 26 March 2004 10:59 +0100 Cyril Beaufrere <dario () easynet fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed succesfully snort with Acid. All works fine, my
> /var/log/alert grows, i can see any alerts, all is good.
>
> But there is one thing which do not work:
>
> Acid stay clear and doesn't log any alert. Where can i change the
> variable to put alert on Acid?

ACID doesn't read from /var/log/alert, it relies upon snort (or, better, 
barnyard or mudpit) to insert the alerts into a DBMS of some kind (e.g. 
MySQL, PostgreSQL). Read up on the 'database' and 'unified' output plugins.

> Cheers,

Best Regards,
Alex.
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