Re: Snort App Logs (not alerts)

[James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>]

On 2014-10-16 08:10, Kurzawa, Kevin wrote:
> Where can I view the snort application startup logs?
>
> I've been searching all over the snort manual and mailing list, but
> the only logging I can find references to is about alerts. The 
> logging
> I want to see is in regards to the application startup and 
> application
> errors itself (I have my alert logging working just fine). Snort is
> starting as a daemon and I don't want to have to manually start it to
> view all the juicy startup messages. But /var/log/messages does not
> contain anything about snort.

Start it with -M:

         -M         Log messages to syslog (not alerts)

James

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