Re: HOW DOES ONE STOP an alert file from being Produced?

[Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com>]

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To turn off alerting, use "-A none" at the command line.  To turn off  
logging, you can use -N at the command line or add a "output  
log_null" in the snort.conf file.

     -Marty

On Mar 7, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Jacob, Raymond A Jr wrote:

> I know this is an old question. However, I could not find the answer.
> I am sending alerts a mysql database so I don't need the alert file.
> What has been done in the past, was to periodically delete the  
> alertfile.
> I thought there was a switch or a config statement I could use.
> I tried config alertfile: /dev/null. Stopped snort. Restarted snort.
> The alertfile is still generated.
>
> Thank you,
> Raymond

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