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Re: Can't put log message to the special directory
From: Matt Kettler <mkettler () evi-inc com>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:49:12 -0400
I think you are missing one minor concept of Snort. Snort has alerts, and logs. Both. Alerts contain rule matches, logs contain packet captures.
Using your "output alert_fast: /home/snort/fst.log" you've set where your ALERTS go, but not where your logs go.
The -l command line specifies where both go. And the default format for logs is ip-hierarchy. However, this is IN ADDITION to the alert file.
Might i suggest switching to tcpdump binary logging or unified logging for your packet captures:
output alert_fast: /home/snort/fst.log output log_tcpdump: /home/snort/tcpdump.logThis will give you two files, one with your fast mode alerts, and one fast-written binary log of packets that you can later read with tcpdump -r.
At 10:06 PM 9/27/2004, Peixiao Guo wrote:
output alert_fast: /home/snort/fst.log log tcp any any -> any 80 (flags:S;)I just want to put the alert_fast message to the file /home/snort/fst.log, but I will get an error if I run this command:snort c snort.conf d the err messages as below: Running in IDS mode Log directory = /var/log/snort ERROR: [!] ERROR: Can not get write access to logging directory "/var/log/snort". (directory doesn't exist or permissions are set incorrectly or it is not a directory at all) Fatal Error, Quitting.. When I run this command: snort c snort.conf dl /home/snort/then all output message will be recorded in IP hierarchy in /home/snort directory.I m wandering how to log the output message to a /home/snort/fst.log file Can any senior one give me a directive? Thanks very very much!
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