Re: Unifed login plugin

[Carlos Terrón <terron () arrakis es>]

Thanks Patrik

My error, I have see the alert_unified and log_unified and I assumeed that
the option also need an absolute path like the others. Now works fine.
Thank you very much

Greetings
Carlos

> 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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