Re: Snort and Syslog

[Phil Daws <uxbod () splatnix net>]

Hello Doug,

Very much appreciate the response.  At the moment with a stock Snort install it starts with the command:

/usr/sbin/snort -d -D -i eth0 -u snort -g snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -l /var/log/snort/eth0

so looking at your start script one just needs to append the logfile to the end ? 

Does that make sense ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Burks" <doug.burks () gmail com>
To: "Phil Daws" <uxbod () splatnix net>
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Sent: Thursday, 4 April, 2013 6:55:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort and Syslog

Hi Phil,

In Security Onion, we start Snort using the NSMnow scripts which
provide a function called process_start.  This function starts the
process and writes the log to a dedicated log file (not syslog).  In
the following code snippet, you can see that we're logging to $LOG,
which ends up being /var/log/nsm/HOSTNAME-INTERFACE/snortu-1.log.

                # Start $IDS_LB_PROCS instances of Snort using pfring
load-balancing
                for i in `seq 1 $IDS_LB_PROCS`; do
                        PID=$PROCESS_PID_DIR/$SENSOR/snortu-$i.pid
                        LOG=$PROCESS_LOG_DIR/$SENSOR/snortu-$i.log
                        PERFMON=$SENSOR_LOG_DIR/snort-$i.stats
                        UNI_DIR=$SENSOR_LOG_DIR/snort-$i
                        mkdir -p $UNI_DIR
                        chown $SENSOR_USER:$SENSOR_GROUP $UNI_DIR
                        [ -z "$SKIP_SNORT_ALERT" ] && process_start
"snort" "-c $SNORT_CONFIG -u $SENSOR_USER -g $SENSOR_GROUP -i
$SENSOR_INTERFACE_SHORT -F /etc/nsm/$SENSOR/bpf-ids.conf -l $UNI_DIR
--perfmon-file $PERFMON $SNORT_OPTIONS
" "$PID" "$LOG" "snort-$i (alert data)"
                done

Hope that helps!

Thanks,
Doug


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Phil Daws <uxbod () splatnix net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When Snort starts it writes specific information to /var/log/messages eg.
>
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: [ Port Based Pattern Matching Memory ]
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: +- [ Aho-Corasick Summary ] -------------------------------------
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: | Storage Format    : Full-Q
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: | Finite Automaton  : DFA
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: | Alphabet Size     : 256 Chars
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: | Sizeof State      : Variable (1,2,4 bytes)
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: | Instances         : 294
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: |     1 byte states : 275
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: |     2 byte states : 19
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: |     4 byte states : 0
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: | Characters        : 249637
>
> How can I redirect those messages to a separate file as it plays havoc with OSSEC :) I have tried adding snort.none 
> to rsyslog.conf for /var/log/messages and then added snort.* to direct too another file. That did not work :(
>
> Any thoughts please ?
>
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