Re: Snort and Syslog

[Jeremy Hoel <jthoel () gmail com>]

In OSSEC make a local rule to ignore the file and the process?

Or setup snort to not output to syslog..

and you might try running snort with the '-q' flag and see if it's quieter
in the logs.


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Phil Daws <uxbod () splatnix net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When Snort starts it writes specific information to /var/log/messages eg.
>
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: [ Port Based Pattern Matching Memory ]
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: +- [ Aho-Corasick Summary ]
> -------------------------------------
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: | Storage Format    : Full-Q
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: | Finite Automaton  : DFA
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: | Alphabet Size     : 256 Chars
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: | Sizeof State      : Variable (1,2,4
> bytes)
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: | Instances         : 294
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: |     1 byte states : 275
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: |     2 byte states : 19
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: |     4 byte states : 0
> Apr  4 12:01:40 fw1 snort[2951]: | Characters        : 249637
>
> How can I redirect those messages to a separate file as it plays havoc
> with OSSEC :) I have tried adding snort.none to rsyslog.conf for
> /var/log/messages and then added snort.* to direct too another file. That
> did not work :(
>
> Any thoughts please ?
>
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