Re: Rotating '-b' logs without stopping snort? (0% data loss...)

[Dave Cinege <dcinege () psychosis com>]

"Migus, Adam" wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Cinege [mailto:dcinege () psychosis com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:56 PM
> > To: snort-users () work mumble org uk
> > Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
> > Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Rotating '-b' logs without stopping snort?
> > (0% data loss...)
> >
> >
> > snort-users () work mumble org uk wrote:
> > > pig$ mkfifo /tmp/snort
> > > pig$ snort -b /tmp/snort
> > > pig$ cat /tmp/snort | ssh -e none remote.host cat
> > \>/var/log/snort/machine1
> >
> > Actually I just thought of something similar to this last night...
> > Writing a small C proggie to read from a pipe, and have that handle
> > rotating the logs out, and think this is what I'll do...
>
> I did something like that many moons ago to handle 2GB+ of Cisco PIX
> firewall logs.  It worked wonderfully.  I did it in perl though...

I was considering just python'ing (perl yuck) it out, but figured
it would bottle neck snort under high load...

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