Re: Barnyard not logging to Syslog

[Erek Adams <erek () snort org>]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Steve Knoch wrote:

> I have barnyard setup and running. I have it logging to my MySQL server.
> Now I'm trying to get it to log to syslog so I can run swatch against it
> for realtime email alerting for high priority alerts. My syntax in the
> barnyard.conf is
>
> output alert_syslog: LOG_AUTH LOG_ALERT
>
> Nothing is showing up in my syslog.
>
> Any thoughts?

Yep.

Add that to the .conf file for _Snort_, since that's the one that's really
doing the alerting.

  echo "output alert_syslog: LOG_AUTH LOG_ALERT" >> /etc/snort.conf

Cheers!

-----
Erek Adams

   "When things get weird, the weird turn pro."   H.S. Thompson


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