Re: doc/signature files in Snort-2.9.0.5

[Nigel Houghton <nhoughton () sourcefire com>]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:13:49 +0000, Zultan wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Nigel Houghton
> > Sent: 04/27/11 05:39 PM
> > To: Dheeraj Gupta
> > Subject: Re: [Snort-users] doc/signature files in Snort-2.9.0.5
> >
> >  
> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:05:14 +0200, Dheeraj Gupta wrote: 
> > > Hi, 
> > > I have recently upgraded from Snort 2.8.6.1 to 2.9.0.5. Previously 
> > > snort installation had a directory 
> > > /snort_install_path/etc/doc/signatures (or something of that sort) 
> > > which listed .txt files for all the signatures giving details of the 
> > > signature like Affected Systems, Ease of Attack, References, False 
> > > Positives etc. However, in the 2.9.0.5 installation I could not find 
> > > those files. Have they been removed? I had written a program that 
> > > used information contained in those files to extract affected systems 
> > > information and verify the alerts. How should I source that 
> > > information from current snort installation 
> > >
> > > Regards, 
> > > Dheeraj 
> >
> > Yes. 
> >
> > You can find them at: 
> >
> >  http://www.snort.org/snort-rules/ 
> >
> > Where it says "Rule Documentation" 
>
> Is there a command line URL for that?
> "http://www.snort.org/downloads/885"; is subject to change, it is not?
>  
> Z 


Apparently, I did have to do the mailing list search after all:

 http://marc.info/?l=snort-sigs&m=129139707320795&w=2

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