Re: Generate alert but not log packet data

["Shawn Truax" <Shawn.Truax () mbs gov on ca>]

Sorry, I meant that I want a couple of rules to just alert and not log. I do want all the other rules to log the packet 
data.  I have created a couple of alerts that I just need the alert data for and in the interest of saving some disk 
space I would like to disregard the packet data and not save it.  However I still want the packet data from all the 
other alerts just not the two custom rules I wrote.  Is this possible?

Thanks for the previous response.


Shawn Truax
Security Specialist
Corporate Security
Toronto, Ontario


> > > "Alberto Gonzalez" <electron () wwjh net> 03/08/03 03:06am >>>
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> Hi,

Hello

> Is there a way to generate an alert for a snort rule but not actually 
> log the packet data.  It looks like there is an option to just log the 
> packet and not alert but not vise versa.

Yup sure is........

(root@cerebro)(~) /usr/local/bin/snort -?
       
[...snip...]

- -N         Turn off logging (alerts still work)

See also Page 7 of the snort users manual(pdf) or [1]

> Shawn Truax
> Security Specialist
> Corporate Security

Cheers!
  Alberto Gonzalez

[1] - http://www.snort.org/docs/writing_rules/chap1.html#tth_sEc1.4.1 

- -- 
"Success comes to the person who does today, what you are thinking of doing tomorrow." 

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