Re: Reading rules in snort.conf

["Carter Waxman \(cwaxman\) via Snort-sigs" <snort-sigs () lists snort org>]

Sending SIGHUP to the Snort process will also cause it to reload the configuration, though some changes to 
configuration require a full restart.

Thanks,
Carter

From: Snort-sigs <snort-sigs-bounces () lists snort org> on behalf of Alex McDonnell <amcdonnell () sourcefire com>
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2018 at 12:29 PM
To: "tasneem184 () gmail com" <tasneem184 () gmail com>
Cc: snort-sigs <snort-sigs () lists snort org>
Subject: Re: [Snort-sigs] Reading rules in snort.conf

When you include a rules file it should get read once by Snort when it starts up and loads the rules.

Alex McDonnell
Cisco TALOS


On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 12:16 PM Tasneem Singh via Snort-sigs <snort-sigs () lists snort org<mailto:snort-sigs () lists 
snort org>> wrote:
Hi,

I was wondering how does snort.conf file works in depth? More particularly, I’m interested in knowing how often does it 
read the external rule file that I’ve created and included in the main configuration file (ie. snort.conf).

I would really appreciate any help.

Thank You.

Best,
Tasneem
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