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Re: Explain a line


From: Rashid CORIA <rashid.coria () skylar eu>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 13:26:05 +0000

Thanks Lewis ! ☺

De : Al Lewis (allewi) [mailto:allewi () cisco com]
Envoyé : mardi 1 août 2017 15:17
À : Rashid CORIA; snort-users () lists snort org
Objet : Re: [Snort-users] Explain a line

See the options from snort with -? (I.e snort -?).

 -u <uname> Run snort uid as <uname> user (or uid) after initialization

 -c <rules> Use Rules File <rules>

 -g <gname> Run snort gid as <gname> group (or gid) after initialization

 -i <if>    Listen on interface <if>

 -q         Quiet. Don't show banner and status report

Albert Lewis
ENGINEER.SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
SOURCEfire, Inc. now part of Cisco
Email: allewi () cisco com<mailto:allewi () cisco com>

From: Snort-users <snort-users-bounces () lists snort org<mailto:snort-users-bounces () lists snort org>> on behalf of 
Rashid CORIA <rashid.coria () skylar eu<mailto:rashid.coria () skylar eu>>
Date: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 9:08 AM
To: "snort-users () lists snort org<mailto:snort-users () lists snort org>" <snort-users () lists snort 
org<mailto:snort-users () lists snort org>>
Subject: [Snort-users] Explain a line

Hello everybody
I’m creating a systemD startup script in Ubuntu 16 with the following content :

[Unit]
Description=Snort NIDS Daemon
After=syslog.target network.target
[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/snort -q -u snort -g snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -i ens160
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I want to have an explanation of the following line:  ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/snort -q -u snort -g snort -c 
/etc/snort/snort.conf -i ens160


Rashid CORIA
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