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Re: [Snort-users] Need help in getting barnyard and Snort to work togeth

Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Need help in getting barnyard and Snort to work together
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:02:54 -0600
--On Wednesday, January 30, 2008 19:01:48 -0500 sudhakar govindavajhala 
<sudhakarg79spam@gmail.com> wrote:



Thanks Paul,  please read on.


2) As I noticed, each time Snort is restarted, the log file name changes.
For example, snort.log.1201695424 to snort.log.12016923232.  Why?  Change in
log file name implies that barnyard.waldo needs to change every time there is
a reboot, making configurations unstable.

That's normal behavior and has no ill effects.

OK.  Does it mean I need to change the waldo config file each time my
computer reboots or Snort restarts?


No.  Barnyard maintains the waldo file and understands that snort appends a 
numerical string to the end of its logfiles.


Can you tell me what I need to do from here to be able to automate Snort and
barnyard?


Without knowing what OS you're using?  Not likely.

SG: Red Hat EL 4


Google for it.  There are numerous documents out there that provide pre-written 
startup scripts for RedHat, but writing one yourself is trivial if you know any 
shell scripting at all.  Even if you don't, you can simply copy an existing 
script and change a few items.

Snort docs has numerous guides that include startup scripts. 
<http://www.snort.org/docs/>

And Patrick Harper's guides were excellent: 
<http://www.snort.org/docs/setup_guides/Snort_Base_Minimal.pdf>

-- 
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/


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