Re: How to decide which rules should be enabled.

["Lay, James" <james.lay () wincofoods com>]

From: Joel Esler [mailto:jesler () sourcefire com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 9:54 AM
To: Bravo Snipper
Cc: snort list
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] How to decide which rules should be enabled.

The answer is "it depends"

You can make pulled pork still output the "individual" files if you want.  I don't know the command for it, but maybe 
JJ can chime in here?

On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 4:03 AM, Bravo Snipper <snipperbravo () yahoo com> wrote:
Hi
Al right I opted for  rule policy "security" in pulledpork.

Now when i manually downloaded  snortrules-snapshot-xxxx I can see different *.rules file, a separate pre_proc 
directory etc.

But when i use pulledpork it only places a singal file snort.rules in rules directory, it has all the rules in single 
file.

Why is it different? 
Isn't keeping separate rules file e.g scan.rules, web-attack.rules is more manageable.

Can this(keeping single rule file or multiple) be configured using pulledpork configuration.
Currently I used pulledpork in the following way;
 
-My pulledpork command
/usr/local/bin/pulledpork.pl -c /etc/snort/pulledpork.conf -T -l

-ips_policy=security

Regards




Chiming in, though I'm not JJ :D  -k will get what you need...caveat is that the rules files will be have VRT- and ET- 
prepended to each file, so you'll need to adjust your snort.conf to reflect it.  Least that's my experience.

James

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