Re: Changing name and file size limit of ALERT output file

["praveen_recker ." <praveen_recker () sify com>]

Hi Abhishek,

You can use logrorate command on linux.......which automatically rotates
mentioned files based upon your criteria/configuration.

Best Regards,
Praveen Darshanam

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Abhishek Sharma <abhisheksharma84 () gmail com
> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Apologies if the question is too trivial. I am running snort, lets say on
> a given pcap file using the following command line argument -
>
> snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -A fast -l /tmp/ -r ABCDE.pcap
>
> Everything runs fine and I get an alert file in the /tmp directory. My
> question is, that is there a way to -
>
> 1). Change the name of the file being created. Say if I want the file name
> to be alert_myname?
> 2). Is there a way to create multiple alert files based on a given size?
> Say can I restrict it to 100KB? so after every 100KB I get a new alert file
> (without deleting/overwriting the existing)?
>
> Or is the only way out is by playing around with code?
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Many Thanks.
>
> Abhi
>
>
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