Re: mysql support is not compiled into this build of snort

["2014/2015 - Nsabimana Thierry" <thierry.nsabimana () aims-cameroon org>]

Many thanks for everyone who spent time to provide me responses.  I hope
your suggestions will help me. I appreciate your faster response. May God
bless you.

On Sat, Apr 7, 2018, 23:22 Joel Esler (jesler) via Snort-users <
snort-users () lists snort org> wrote:

> On Apr 7, 2018, at 4:39 PM, wkitty42 () windstream net wrote:
>
> On 04/07/2018 04:13 PM, Marcin Dulak wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 9:20 PM, <wkitty42 () windstream net> wrote:
>    2. as Al noted, snort 2.6 is very old and out of date... snort no longer
>    talks directly to the databases like it once did... there were too many
>    situations that would cause snort to miss traffic (eg: the database was
>    down)... snort would get hung up on the database stuff and simply miss
>    traffic... so the database code was ripped out and snort only writes to
> its
>    log files... now you use a tool like barnyard2
> https://github.com/firnsy/barnyard2 is not maintained.
>
>
>
> interesting... when did it become unmaintained?? my understanding is that
> it has been /the/ tool to use to put snort U2 logs into databases for
> several years...
>
> in any case, thanks for the heads up... i'll stop recommending it if it is
> not the Talos recommended tool to use...
>
>
> AFAIK, It's still the tool, and works just fine.  Just because it hasn't
> been updated in awhile doesn't mean it doesn't still work.  But we are
> aware that it hasn't been updated in awhile
>
> --
> *Joel Esler*
> Manager
> Open Source, Design, Web, and Education
> Talos Group
> http://www.talosintelligence.com
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