Re: Unifed login plugin

[Patrik Israelsson <patrik.israelsson () sentor se>]

Carlos,

did you set the logdir in your snort.conf?
config logdir: $SNORTDIR/log

Regards,
Patrik

On Thursday 29 March 2007 16:25, Carlos Terrón wrote:
> Hi people
>
> I'm looking info for the unified login plugin implemented in spo_unified.c
>
> > From the documentation of snort, the alerts and the log file are
>
> differentes i.e:
>
> output alert_unified: filename $SNORTDIR/log/usnort.alert
> output log_unified: filename $SNORTDIR/log/usnort.log
>
> These is configuration in the snort.conf, write the alerts in binary form
> to usnort.alert.timestamp and the packest to the usnort.log.
>
> Well, looking at the source code of spo_unified.c, I have seen that there
> is code to log to one unified file,  where each record has the alert
> information and the packet(s) that causes it.  Looking futher in the code
> I have seen the option:
>
> output unified
>
> That I think that can be the option for that unified logging, but
>
>  output unified:  $SNORTDIR/log/snort.unified.log
>
> give me an error:
>
> ERROR: UnifiedInitLogFile(/var/log/snort/snort-unified.1175177880): No
> such file or directory
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
>
> It's like the $SNORTDIR isn't defined, snort insits in create the snort
> log file in /var/log/snort. Is this the correct behaviur of snort or it's
> a bug?. If I put a absolute path doesn't work also (i.e, output unified:
> /tmp/snort.log)
>
> ERROR: UnifiedInitLogFile(/var/log/snort/snort-unified.1175178254): No
> such file or directory
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
>
> If I create the /var/log/snort, then the option works as expected
>
> (The header of the file created has the correct magic number)
>
> Thanks in advance
> Carlos
>
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