IDS: Re: Snort & email

[Bartosz Krajnik <bartek () bmk bz>]

On 04-05-2005 at 10:16:37AM -0500, Dan S Baxter wrote:
> I'm setting up a Snort sensor in our environment and I am unable to
> determine how I might get emailed on alerts.  I understand some are using
> Swatch, but we are not logging to syslogs but rather to a mysql db.  What
> are others doing in this case?
>
> If I can't get it to alert me, it doesn't do me as much good, as I do not
> have the time to watch it 24/7.
It's very easy to implement.
Log scans (portscan.log) to FIFO file (man mkfifo).
Create proces to listen on this FIFO and to send You e-mail notification
after incident (I use FIFO in authfail daemon: www.bmk.bz/authfail).

So You get e-mail notification in the real time.

Best regards,
        Bartek.
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