Re: Snort not generating alerts

[Pratik Narang <pratik.cse.bits () gmail com>]

As an update-
running snort with * -A console* *does *generate that Google alert i was
talking about.... So my best guess is that there is some problem in
communicating with mysql (either with Snort or with Barnyard?)



On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Pratik Narang <pratik.cse.bits () gmail com>wrote:

> I tried testing my installation of Snort (with rules) with some network
> traffic and with some pcap files known to contain malicious data. In either
> case, Snort did not generate any alerts or block any traffic. I guess there
> is some basic mistake with the way Snort is running, Here is my conf file-
> http://pastebin.com/czMtYHtd. And here is the log from the terminal when
> Snort begins (it looks a little strange to me so I thought of including
> this)- http://pastebin.com/LinkbT2J
> I know the files are quite big... Any help would be appreciated. Thanks...
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