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Re: scan file


From: Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu>
Date: 28 Feb 2003 16:23:02 -0600

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 15:56, Clayton Mascarenhas wrote:
Hi list,

Could somebody please explain to me what that "scan" file is all
about?? Every time I run snort, it gets generated together with a file
named "alert".... but only sometimes ... when there is a portscan
attack I guess ... will that scan file actually have anyting in it. I
know the alerts get sent to that file named "alert" . But where is the
file for all the triggered rules that just need to log information and
do not need to be sent to the "alert" file. Is this "scan" file that
"log" file?? Or is there another file somewhere called "log". What is
this scan file?? How does it get generated? And when does it get
filled? Thanks snort-users list.

The scan.log is generated by the portscan2 preprocessor.  Search your
snort.conf file for portscan2.

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
AVIEN Founding Member



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