Re: Snort log file size is getting huge

[waldo kitty <wkitty42 () windstream net>]

On 7/23/2013 11:10, Maged Shenouda wrote:
> I finally was able to make snort logging work but it is getting huge within 5-10
> minutes?
> The snort.conf file is set as follow
>
> output unified2: filename snort.log, limit 128
>
> but the file size is continuing to grow, it doesn't stop at the 128 mb? what is
> wrong with it? Is that normal?
>
> shouldn't it record only suspecious alerts and not everything?

did you disable the local-test.rules after your previous test(s)???

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