RE: Re: Log vs Alert

[SRH-Lists <giermo () 333tech com>]

> How about this?  I want to write alerts to the database but 
> nothing at all 
> in text.
>
> output database: alert, mysql, user= password= dbname= host=
> output log_null
>
> This will make it so I dont have to worry about that damn 
> /var/log/snort/alert file.  But this
> output database: log, mysql, user= password= dbname= host=
> output log_null
>
> Doesnt seem to work, /var/log/snort/alert still appears and 
> gets big and 
> slows down snort.  Why does this work for output database: 
> alert but not 
> database: log?

add a -A none to your commandline and bye bye /var/log/snort/alert.


-steve


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