Re: Reading rules in snort.conf

[Tasneem Singh via Snort-sigs <snort-sigs () lists snort org>]

Thank you for your help!

Best,
Tasneem

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 9:33 AM Carter Waxman (cwaxman) <cwaxman () cisco com>
wrote:

> Sending SIGHUP to the Snort process will also cause it to reload the
> configuration, though some changes to configuration require a full restart.
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> Thanks,
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> Carter
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> *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
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> When you include a rules file it should get read once by Snort when it
> starts up and loads the rules.
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> Alex McDonnell
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> Cisco TALOS
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> On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 12:16 PM Tasneem Singh via Snort-sigs <
> snort-sigs () lists snort org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Thank You.
>
> Best,
> Tasneem
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