Re: Need help in getting barnyard and Snort to work together

["sudhakar govindavajhala" <sudhakarg79spam () gmail com>]

Thanks Paul,  please read on.


> 2) As I noticed, each time Snort is restarted, the log file name changes.
> For example, snort.log.1201695424 to snort.log.12016923232.  Why?  Change
in
> log file name implies that barnyard.waldo needs to change every time there
is
> a reboot, making configurations unstable.

That's normal behavior and has no ill effects.

OK.  Does it mean I need to change the waldo config file each time my
computer reboots or Snort restarts?


> Can you tell me what I need to do from here to be able to automate Snort
and
> barnyard?

Without knowing what OS you're using?  Not likely.

SG: Red Hat EL 4



--Sudhakar

BTW, if you read the source code for base, you'll discover that you can add
this to the barnyard.conf file and eliminate some of the long commandline
when
you start barnyard.

config class-file: /usr/local/etc/snort/classification.config
config sid-msg-map: /usr/local/etc/snort/sid-msg.map
config gen-msg-map: /usr/local/etc/snort/gen-msg.map

(Change the paths to fit your OS.)

So, having done that, you could start barnyard like this:
barnyard -D -c /etc/barnyard.conf -d /path-to/snort.log-directory -f
snort.log
-w path-to/waldo.file

Barnyard will figure out which log file to open and keep track of where it's
at
in the waldo file.

--
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/


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