Re: Monitor progress and ETA while running snort

["Carter Waxman \(cwaxman\) via Snort-users" <snort-users () lists snort org>]

Changelog:

2001-01-02  mfr <roesch () md prestige net> fy <fygrave () tigerteam net>
…
    * Added SIGUSR1 handler, Snort will dump packet stats to console/syslog
…

We haven’t removed it, it’s too important for us. If you have snort output running to syslog or being piped somewhere, 
then that would be where to look.

From: John Byrne <jbyrnescu () gmail com>
Date: Saturday, October 13, 2018 at 2:23 PM
To: Assaf <assaf.morami () gmail com>
Cc: "Carter Waxman (cwaxman)" <cwaxman () cisco com>, "snort-users () lists snort org" <snort-users () lists snort org>
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Monitor progress and ETA while running snort

I’m assuming this doesn’t work for snort v2.9.11.1?  It doesn’t work for me. But it seems the snort 3 manual has this.

Do you know when this was added?

Curiously,

John Byrne


On Oct 12, 2018, at 6:49 AM, Assaf via Snort-users <snort-users () lists snort org<mailto:snort-users () lists snort 
org>> wrote:

Thanks! I didn't knew about the USR1 trick.
On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 15:51 Carter Waxman (cwaxman) <cwaxman () cisco com<mailto:cwaxman () cisco com>> wrote:
kill –USR1 (snort pid) and snort will dump stats to stdout. See “Packet I/O Totals” for packets read so far.
--pcap-list will run a batch of pcaps, but be aware that Snort resets between each pcap so you would probably still 
need to do your merge.

From: Snort-users <snort-users-bounces () lists snort org<mailto:snort-users-bounces () lists snort org>> on behalf of 
Assaf via Snort-users <snort-users () lists snort org<mailto:snort-users () lists snort org>>
Reply-To: Assaf <assaf.morami () gmail com<mailto:assaf.morami () gmail com>>
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 12:56 AM
To: "snort-users () lists snort org<mailto:snort-users () lists snort org>" <snort-users () lists snort 
org<mailto:snort-users () lists snort org>>
Subject: [Snort-users] Monitor progress and ETA while running snort

Hi, I just wanted to share how I monitor progress and ETA while running snort from a pcap file.

If I have only one pcap I use pipe viewer (the pv command) like this:

pv x.pcap | snort -r -

If I have more than one pcap, e.g. from a big tcpdump run, I merge all of them on the fly using joincap ( 
https://github.com/assafmo/joincap ) like this:

joincap *.pcap | pv -s $(du -bc *.pcap | awk '/total/{print $1}') | snort -r -

This way pv print progress and ETA information while snort is running. :-)

Shameless plug - I wrote joincap specifically for these kind of situations, because mergecap and tcpslice does not 
handle errors very well.
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