Re: SNORT not saving pcap file

[waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>]

On 10/25/2012 19:18, jtravlos () rsignia com wrote:
> When I do the command, a file shows up in the folder, but then disappears when I
> stop SNORT.

"a file"?? what file? what is the name?

> It appears when I use snort.conf, it won't save the file.

this sounds like possibly some kind of clean up from your script that executes 
snort... more info is needed :/

>     *From:* Joel Esler [mailto:jesler () sourcefire com]
>     *Sent:* Thursday, October 25, 2012 03:18 PM
>     *To:* jtravlos () rsignia com
>     *Cc:* snort-users () lists sourceforge net
>     *Subject:* Re: [Snort-users] SNORT not saving pcap file
>
>     Your command line is overriding your .conf
>
>     Try
>
>     ./snort -i dag0:0 -c /etc/snort.snort.conf
>
>     --
>     *Joel Esler*
>     Senior Research Engineer, VRT
>     OpenSource Community Manager
>     Sourcefire
>
>     On Oct 25, 2012, at 2:54 PM, jtravlos () rsignia com
>     <mailto:jtravlos () rsignia com> wrote:
>
> >     I'm running snort 2.9.3.1 on CentOS 6.3 capturing traffic via Endace DAG
> >     card. I want to save to a file (pcap format) the traffic that it sees. I
> >     know in snort.conf there are some settings, but it does not appears to
> >     save the file. When ever I use the snort.conf, it is not saved.
> >
> >     The settings are:
> >     config logdir: /data/snortlog
> >
> >     # pcap
> >     output log_tcpdump: tcpdump.log
> >
> >     The command I'm using to start snort:
> >
> >     ./snort -d -b -i dag0:0 -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
> >
> >     If I use this, I get a file that tcpdump can read, but no detail packet info.
> >
> >     ./snort -d -b -i dag0:0 -l /data/snortlog -L tcpdump.log
> >
> >
> >     Attached is the snort.conf.
> >
> >     Any suggestions? What am I doing wrong?
> >
> >     Thanks,
> >
> >     John Travlos


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