Re: log files?

[Jeff Taylor <jeff () austinblues dyndns org>]

Note that snort creates several log files in the /var/log/snort
directory.  IIRC, the directory has to be created by hand.

HTH,
  Jeffrey

Quoting red z <red300zcar () yahoo com>:
> Ok,  thanks for the help guys. I tried to run snort in NIDS mode by doing this:
>
> snort -dev -l log -h 172.16.0.1/10 -c snort.conf     
>
> But I got the following error:
>
> "error. can not get write access to logging directory "log." Directory does not exist or permissions are set 
> incorrectly or it is not a directory at all."
>
> Well, /usr/local/bin/snort    is where snort installed on my bsd box.  The FAQs said it is supposed to be in /var/log 
> by default. I assume this is because I'm on bsd?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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