From: Michael Steele (michaelswinsnort.com)
Date: Wed Jul 02 2003 - 14:59:28 CDT

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Seems to me that I was having that problem and it was related to the output
database line. I am now using log and alert and I'm getting portscans logged
to ACID.

Cheers...

-Michael Steele
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-----Original Message-----
From: snort-users-adminlists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:snort-users-adminlists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of James Nonya
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9:00 AM
To: snort-userslists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Portscan preprocessors

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 14:45:24 -0400
"Mike Feetham" <mike.feethampercepta-crm.com> wrote:

> I've been running Snort with Acid for awhile now,
and everything seems
> to be working properly, except detection of
portscans. I'm using Snort
> 2.0 on RH8, and I'm logging to a MySQL database. I
tried enabling the
> portscan preprocessor in the snort.conf file:
"preprocessor portscan:
> $HOME_NET 4 3 /var/log/portscan.log". I ran a few
portscans to test the
> preprocessor, but I didn't see anything happening in
the ACID console,
> though the scans appear in the /var/log/portscan.log
file.
>
>
>
> Next I tried disabling this preprocessor, and
enabling the
> conversation preprocessor: "preprocessor
conversation:
> allowed_ip_protocols all, timeout 60,
max_conversations 3000", as well
> as the portscan2 preprocessor: "preprocessor
portscan2: scanners_max
> 256, targets_max 1024, target_limit 5, port_limit
20, timeout 60".
> After restarting snort, and running a few portscans,
I'm still not
> seeing anything in the ACID console. Is there a
parameter I'm missing
> to get snort to log these portscans into the MySQL
database?
>
>
>
> Any help is appreciated,
>
>
>
> Mike F.
>
Mike,

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~rdanyliw/snort/acid_faq.html#faq_b7

I had the same issue ;-)

James

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