Re: snort -q

[Nigel Houghton <nigel.houghton () sourcefire com>]

This is a cron issue not a Snort one, it's sending the output to you in
an email. But anyway, here are a couple of things you can do:

1. Send the output to /dev/null by placing '> /dev/null' after the snort
command line of your crontab line. You'll probably want to send error
messages there too if you don't want any email at all, so you need to
send the error messages to the same place by putting '2>&1' at the end.

2. Send the messages to a file instead by placing 
'> /path/to/log-file.txt' after the Snort command line. Likewise put the
'2>&1' at the end to send error messages to the same place.

On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 19:49, Maarten de Vries wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I start Snort every night from cron using a script, which basically utilizes
> the following commandline:
>
> snort -q -D -A fast
>
> -q should mean "Quiet operation.  Don't display banner and initialization
> information" according to the manpage, but still I get an e-mail saying
> "Initializing Output Plugins!" from the Cron Daemon every time.
> Why does this still happen? I'm using 1.9.0 on FreeBSD 4.7.
>
> Thx,
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