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Re: Sensitive Data Preprocessor: logging single matches


From: Erik Johnson <ejohnson () vailsys com>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 12:29:15 -0600

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 05:45:47PM -0500, Victor Roemer wrote:
Ah, I missed that, sorry.

Anyways, per my testing everything seems hunky-dory which leads me to
believe that the issues you are currently experiencing are extraneous to the
sensitive data preprocessor.


So, I found the problem. It was with my alert_syslog line:

I had

# syslog
output alert_syslog: LOG_ERR

According to the snort manual, alert_syslog should have the following
syntax:

alert_syslog: \
    <facility> <priority> <options>


After changing the alert_syslog line to the following, alerts are being
successfully logged.

# syslog
output alert_syslog: LOG_AUTH LOG_ERR



Now, another problem has arisen. Since enabling the sensitive data
preprocessor, I'm not getting anything logged to the tcpdump log. Here's
my log_tcpdump line:

# pcap
output log_tcpdump: tcpdump.log

I'm running snort as a daemon in CentOS, and the init script gets some
of its config options from /etc/sysconfig/snort, so I'll check both that
and the init script to see what's not working. Running ps shows no -r
option like you included in your manual snort run, so tcpdump logging is
definitely not being turned on.

--

Erik Johnson
System Administrator
Vail Systems
e: ejohnson () vailsys com
p: 866-254-7699

http://www.vailsys.com

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