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Re: Still Empty log file


From: JJ Cummings <cummingsj () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:15:58 -0600

Has the HUP or kill output been reviewed to verify good traffic (IE not any bad checksums, read checksum offloading, 
etc etc etc)

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On Jul 20, 2012, at 16:55, "Lay, James" <james.lay () wincofoods com> wrote:

Yonas,
 
Config looks good…could use tuning when you can.  For a test, put this into your local.rules file:
 
alert icmp any any -> any any (msg:"ICMP test"; classtype:bad-unknown; sid:10000016; rev:1;)
 
Then save and start up snort.  Ping to or from the machine you’re running snort on, and you should see alerts things 
both in the u2 file, and snort.fast file.  Lemme know how it goes.
 
James
 
From: Yonas Abebe [mailto:jonasabebe () gmail com] 
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 1:12 PM
To: Lay, James
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Still Empty log file
 
Hi james,
 
Here is my snort.conf. Thanks a lot.
yonas
 
 
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:29 AM, Lay, James <james.lay () wincofoods com> wrote:
Hi Yonas,
 
Can you put in your snort.conf here?  That will help.  Also, if say your HOME_NET is for example 192.168.1.0/24, and 
you’re scanning/pinging from another IP on that same network, Snort won’t see it as it’s on the same LAN.
 
James
 
From: Yonas Abebe [mailto:jonasabebe () gmail com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 2:35 PM
To: Lay, James
Cc: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Still Empty log file
 
Hi James,
 
I didn't put the whole path for the file name in the output lines of snort.conf (my mistake). Now, the output lines 
look like the following:
  
output unified2: filename /var/log/snort/snort.u2, limit 128
output alert_fast: /var/log/snort/snort.fast
 
Then i tried the same simple test using ping, tracert and nmap attack. Now the snort.fast, barnyard2.waldo and 
snort.u2  contain some fixed size bytes which doesn't grow although i repeated the test attack many times. Is there 
something that I am missing?
 
I really appreciate for the help.
 
 
 

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Lay, James <james.lay () wincofoods com> wrote:
From: Yonas Abebe [mailto:jonasabebe () gmail com]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 11:02 AM
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: [Snort-users] Still Empty log file

Hi all,

I am having problems with empty output log files. I am running Snort 2.9.2.2 on Ubuntu virtual machine by following 
the guide at the Snort page. I have barnyard2 installed to send output to Mysql....unified2 output is configured on 
snort.conf. I started snort with a command  

sudo /usr/local/snort/bin/snort -u snort -g snort -c /usr/local/snort/etc/snort.conf  -i eth0 

I started barnyard2 with the command

sudo sudo /usr/local/bin/barnyard2 -c /usr/local/snort/etc/barnyard2.conf -d /var/log/snort -f snort.u2 -w 
/var/log/snort/barnyard2.waldo

The output of barnyard command is OK but shows, WARNING: Ignoring corrupt/truncated waldofile.

For a simple test i did nmap attack,Snort creates the log files in /var/log/snort but the size is always empty. i can 
see the output on the console though. I have tried to research and apply almost all the advice on similar issue in 
this mailing list but none of them helped me. Could you please help me?

thanks 



Yonas,

What are your output lines in your snort.conf?  Something like the below?

output alert_fast: /var/log/snort.fast
output unified2: filename /var/log/snort.u2

If not, for testing, try adding the alert_fast to see what happens there.  Also, try the command u2spewfoo on your 
snort.u2 file and see what that shows.

James
 
 
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