Re: SNORT not saving pcap file

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

Your command line is overriding your .conf

Try

./snort -i dag0:0 -c /etc/snort.snort.conf

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Joel Esler
Senior Research Engineer, VRT
OpenSource Community Manager
Sourcefire

On Oct 25, 2012, at 2:54 PM, jtravlos () rsignia com wrote:

> I'm running snort 2.9.3.1 on CentOS 6.3 capturing traffic via Endace DAG card. I want to save to a file (pcap format) 
> the traffic that it sees. I know in snort.conf there are some settings, but it does not appears to save the file. 
> When ever I use the snort.conf, it is not saved.
>
> The settings are:
> config logdir: /data/snortlog
>
> # pcap
> output log_tcpdump: tcpdump.log
>
> The command I'm using to start snort:
>
>       ./snort -d -b -i dag0:0 -c /etc/snort/snort.conf
>
> If I use this, I get a file that tcpdump can read, but no detail packet info.
>
>       ./snort -d -b -i dag0:0 -l /data/snortlog -L tcpdump.log
>
>
> Attached is the snort.conf.
>
> Any suggestions? What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Travlos 
>
>
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