Re: log file

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

You are attemping to log in Ascii mode when you have ipv6 on your network.  And afaik, you can't create a directory in 
Windows with a colon in the name.

So, I'd suggest logging in a different method. -b perhaps?

J

On Jul 4, 2012, at 5:39 AM, Deepika p <dgpks1 () gmail com> wrote:

> hi, 
>      I am getting following error when trying to run using command    c:\winids\snort\bin\snort -A console -i1 -c 
> c:\winids\snort\etc\
> snort.conf -l c:\winids\snort\log -K ascii
>
>
> 07/04-15:02:40.744280  [**] [1:2000000:1] Got an IP Packet [**] [Classification:
>  Not Suspicious Traffic] [Priority: 3] {UDP} fe80:0000:0000:0000:b4af:fd3b:a6b2:
> 237c:65278 -> ff02:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001:0003:5355
> ERROR: OpenLogFile() => mkdir(c:\winids\snort\log/fe80:0000:0000:0000:b4af:fd3b:
> a6b2:237c) log directory: Invalid argument
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
>
>   What is reason for it? What should we do to get traffic alerts in log file.
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