Re: doc/signature files in Snort-2.9.0.5

[Dheeraj Gupta <dheeraj.gupta4 () gmail com>]

My Bad. I did not look hard enough. But thanks for the info :)

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Nigel Houghton
<nhoughton () sourcefire com>wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:05:14 +0200, Dheeraj Gupta wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have recently upgraded from Snort 2.8.6.1 to 2.9.0.5. Previously
> > snort installation had a directory
> > /snort_install_path/etc/doc/signatures (or something of that sort)
> > which listed .txt files for all the signatures giving details of the
> > signature like Affected Systems, Ease of Attack, References, False
> > Positives etc. However, in the 2.9.0.5 installation I could not find
> > those files. Have they been removed? I had written a program that
> > used information contained in those files to extract affected systems
> > information and verify the alerts. How should I source that
> > information from current snort installation
> >
> > Regards,
> > Dheeraj
>
> Yes.
>
> You can find them at:
>
>  http://www.snort.org/snort-rules/
>
> Where it says "Rule Documentation".
>
> I would point you at the email that went out regarding this change, but
> I would hope a simple search of the mailing list archives would get
> some results for you.
>
> --
> Nigel Houghton
> Head Mentalist
> SF VRT Department of Intelligence Excellence
> http://vrt-blog.snort.org/ && http://labs.snort.org/



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