Re: Archiving Snort logs

[Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists () tx rr com>]

Not trying to be a smartass, but you have heard of syslog, right?

vi /etc/newsyslog.conf and add

/var/log/snort/snort.u2.*  660 100 * @T00  BG /var/run/snort/snort_eth0.pid

Please don't copy the example.  Read the man page.

--On February 24, 2010 3:20:18 PM +0000 "Sharma, Ashish" 
<ashish.sharma3 () hp com> wrote:

> Joel,
>
> Ok I got the point.
>
> There are plenty of approaches to archive DB files.
>
> Here I want to know how can I clean up 'snort.log' files automatically
> that keep on growing in a production system without much admin
> interference.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Ashish Sharma
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Esler [mailto:jesler () sourcefire com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:38 PM
> To: firnsy
> Cc: Sharma, Ashish; Snort Users List
> Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Archiving Snort logs
>
> On Feb 23, 2010, at 5:21 AM, firnsy wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 08:47 +0000, Sharma, Ashish wrote:
> >
> > > Here I want to know, Is the 'Barnyard2' also cleaning up the snort
> > > logs?
> >
> > No, it doesn't. Barnyard2 is only parsing the snort unified log files.
>
> Although you could save the unified files and read them back into the db
> at a later time if you wanted to with barnyard2.  As for cleaning up the
> DB, I think there is a script that can clean up the db.
>
> If you Google "snort db cleanup" many sites come up, however, this one
> popped out at me.  Might give it a shot.
>
> http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=247926
>
>
> --
> Joel Esler
> 302-223-5974
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