Re: Packet Drops...

[Martin Roesch <roesch () sourcefire com>]

Send it 'kill -USR1 <pid>'.  If it's in daemon mode it drops packet
stats to syslog, otherwise they go to the console.

     -Marty

"Grimes, Shawn (NIA/IRP)" wrote:
> I know this has been on this list before but I couldn't find it in the
> archives (maybe I searched for the wrong words) but I wanted to know how you
> could tell how many packets were being dropped by SNORT?
>
> I thought it was 'kill -HUP pid' but that doesn't seem to do it.  I'm
> running snort with the '-D' switch so does that have something to do with
> it?  I know if I just run it at the command line (w/out '-D') and I hit
> ctrl-c it will give me a report of how many packets are dropped.  But I was
> hoping there was a way with it running in daemon mode.
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn Grimes
>
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