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Re: Fw: snort not reporting
From: "Ben van der Merwe" <benm () pasco co za>
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:12:12 +0200
Allan, sorry you are right. '-A' is for alerts and '-b' for binary logging.The log file is deleted because it is empty. This is is also the probable cause for the lack of alerts.
Try to monitor the traffic generated by ppp0 (double check the connection and the name of the interface with 'ifconfig') Try using a tool like etherape or ethereal to verify that there is traffic on the network interface specified.
Please let me know the results. I am curious, not having solved a similar problem myself.
ben----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Jensen" <tubajensen () yahoo com>
To: "Ben van der Merwe" <benm () pasco co za> Cc: "Snort Users" <snort-users () lists sourceforge net> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 12:52 PM Subject: Re: Fw: [Snort-users] snort not reporting
Ben, I tried this command: sudo snort -bi ppp0 -c /etc/snort/snort.conf (-b Log packets in tcpdump format) The -A option just sets the alert mode (That's not what I want - is it?) Using the -b option I find a file in /var/log/snort named: -rw------- 1 root wheel 0 14 Dec 11:35 snort.log.1103020543 As you can see it's size is 0. It also disappears when I quit snort. Allan. --- Ben van der Merwe <benm () pasco co za> wrote:Allan, I experienced the same problem when I first tried snort (with rules), but my project only focused on binary logging so I did not get the opportunity to fix it. That may be a good idea - try out the binary logging (I think there is a '-A' option then) and make sure that the traffic is logged to a binary file. You can then inspect the traffic with tools like 'ethereal', 'etherape' and 'tcpdump'. At least you can narrow down the problem area in this way.__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more.http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
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