Re: Multiple log files

[test engineer <test12524 () gmail com>]

Thanks Waldo, yes they are pcaps (to be specific).  The odd thing is I'm
running 8 snort processes. (in a test environment)

/usr/sbin/snort -A fast -U -b -d -e -D -i dag0:0 -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
-l /var/log/snort
/usr/sbin/snort -A fast -U -b -d -e -D -i dag0:2 -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
-l /var/log/snort
/usr/sbin/snort -A fast -U -b -d -e -D -i dag0:4 -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
-l /var/log/snort
etc... up to dag0:14.

Based on your comment, there should be 8 log (pcap) files but there is not
The question I'm trying to answer is why are there
2 or sometimes 3 pcap files?  Also...only one of the pcap files collects
data, the others are empty.

Thanks





On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:20 PM, waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net> wrote:

> On 1/6/2015 11:44 AM, test engineer wrote:
> > Thanks for any assistance.
> >
> > I'm runnig snort 2.9.6.2 and using an Emulex DAG card as the monitor
> interface.
> > I'm running
> > 8 snort processes in a balanced stream configuration.  After starting
> snort, I
> > notice that some times it creates 2 or even 3 log files in
> /var/log/snort.  I'm
> > wondering why it creates 2 or 3 and not just 1.
> >
> > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Jan  6 11:35 alert
> > -rw-------. 1 root root 0 Jan  6 11:35 snort.log.1420562102
> > -rw-------. 1 root root 0 Jan  6 11:35 snort.log.1420562103
>
> those are pcap files... there should be one for each process... they will
> contain the packet data that triggered the alerts snort raised... each
> process
> should have unique names for these and similar output files they write...
>
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