Re: Snort isn't logging to snort.log but is to snort.alert

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

You should not output from snort using thr output database line. You  
should output using output unified and then use barnyard to read the  
unifies file an output to database.

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Joel Esler
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On Apr 25, 2010, at 2:30 PM, ccie 6862 <ccie6862 () yahoo com> wrote:

> Last night I upgraded snort from 2.8.4 to 2.8.5.3. In the process of  
> going over everything, I noticed that I had never uncommented the  
> "output database" line. I added a line to the "preprocessor  
> frag3_engine" to eliminate some noisy alerts and a couple lines to  
> threshold.conf.
>
> Up to this point, snort was logging OK. Now, snort only is logging  
> to the snort.alert.### file but not the snort.log.### file. I don't  
> see any problems in the /var/log/messages file, and I'm not really  
> sure how to figure out what's wrong.
>
> I'd be very grateful if anyone can point me in the right direction.
>
> I have another question about barnyard, which is also installed.  
> Does the "output database" have to be uncommented in the snort  
> configuration given I'm running barnyard? From reading the  
> documentation, I believe barnyard is duplicating entering the data  
> into mysql; however, I configured this based on some how-to's for  
> installing snort and barnyard.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
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