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RE: Snort IDS OUTPUT TO PRINTER
From: "Jerry Shenk" <jshenk () decommunications com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 08:34:09 -0400
Paper...paper....I remember people talking about that. I can't imagine why you'd want to do this but sure, that would work. I'm not 100% sure how to make it work but here are two ideas. You definitely achieve both of these goals. For the alert bell - I'd probably have swatch monitor the alert file and "bell" whenever it saw the start of a new "alert paragraph". For the printout - do something like "tail -f /var/log/snort/alert > /dev/prn" The tail program is designed to read the last few lines of a file. Using the -f parameter causes it to keep reading as the file is appended to. The ">" is to redirect the data to the printer device. -----Original Message----- From: snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net [mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of Aaron Russ Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 12:26 AM To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net Subject: [Snort-users] Snort IDS OUTPUT TO PRINTER Is it possible to not only view the alerts from IDS mode on screen and log to a file but also send it to a dot matrix printer as the alerts come in? this way you have a hard copy you can easily review or take with you. Another question is can you make snort to beep when there is a IDS alert? _____ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! <http://messenger.yahoo.com/> Messenger
Current thread:
- Snort IDS OUTPUT TO PRINTER Aaron Russ (Jun 10)
- RE: Snort IDS OUTPUT TO PRINTER Jerry Shenk (Jun 11)