Re: not logging data

[Sharif Uddin <Sharif.Uddin () spectrumasa com>]

Yes I did full make make install



I think I misunderstood strace.


[root@snort snort]# ps -eaf | grep snort
avahi      659     1  0 10:48 ?        00:00:00 avahi-daemon: running [snort.local]
root      2622  2529  0 10:51 pts/1    00:00:00 tail -f /var/log/messages /var/log/mariadb/mariadb.log 
/var/log/snort/alert
root      2711     1  3 10:51 ?        00:00:42 barnyard2 -c /etc/snort/barnyard2.conf -d /var/log/snort -f snort.u2 -w 
/var/log/snort/barnyard2.waldo
snort     3184     1  4 11:08 ?        00:00:13 snort -q -u snort -g snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -i ens34 -D
root      3371  2625  0 11:14 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto snort


Snort and barnyard running. My log files are empty


[root@snort snort]# pwd
/var/log/snort
[root@snort snort]# ll
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 snort snort    0 Sep  9 15:35 alert
-rw-rw-r-- 1 snort snort 2056 Sep 10 11:08 barnyard2.waldo
-rw-r--r-- 1 snort snort 2056 Sep  8 16:58 barnyard2.waldo-20140907
-rw------- 1 snort snort    0 Sep 10 11:02 snort.u2.1410343376
-rw------- 1 snort snort    0 Sep 10 11:04 snort.u2.1410343496
-rw------- 1 snort snort    0 Sep 10 11:08 snort.u2.1410343717




[root@snort snort]# strace -fp 3184
Process 3184 attached with 2 threads
[pid  3185] restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...> <unfinished ...>
[pid  3184] restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...>) = 1
[pid  3184] brk(0)                      = 0x148bc000
[pid  3184] brk(0x148dd000)             = 0x148dd000
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] brk(0)                      = 0x148dd000
[pid  3184] brk(0x148fe000)             = 0x148fe000
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000 <unfinished ...>
[pid  3185] <... restart_syscall resumed> ) = 0
[pid  3185] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], ~[KILL STOP RTMIN RT_1], 8) = 0
[pid  3185] nanosleep({1, 0},  <unfinished ...>
[pid  3184] <... poll resumed> )        = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] brk(0)                      = 0x148fe000
[pid  3184] brk(0x1491f000)             = 0x1491f000
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
[pid  3184] poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 1000^CProcess 3184 detached
 <detached ...>
Process 3185 detached




Without changing any configurations to snort I should be getting thousands of alerts as I did when I 1st set it up.



-----Original Message-----
From: waldo kitty [mailto:wkitty42 () windstream net]
Sent: 10 September 2014 01:35
To: snort-users () lists sourceforge net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] cannot decode data link type 239

On 9/9/2014 1:01 PM, Sharif Uddin wrote:
> I have just tried and made no difference. Strace still gives me


probably a stupid question but after running

./configure --enable-non-ether-decoders

you did also run the complete make and installation cycles, right?


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