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RE: [Snort-users] log to syslog but not to /var/log/snort/ directory

From: Pablo Nebrera (pablonebreraeneotecnologia.com)
Date: Mon Sep 05 2005 - 02:24:26 CDT


Ye I know I can send the logs to a remote host and I even use it. But it
still create the /var/log/snort directory with a lot of logs there.

How can I avoid it??

Thanks

Pablo

El vie, 02-09-2005 a las 09:07 -0400, Andre' M. DiMino escribió:
> One option is to configure your syslog service to log to a remote syslog
> server.
> Configure your syslog.conf file to send logs on the facility you set up for
> snort to the remote server.
>
> For example in snort.conf, you may have something like:
> output alert_syslog: LOG_LOCAL3 LOG_ALERT
>
> In your syslog.conf file, you could have:
> local3.alert 192.168.10.10
>
> You will need to configure your remote syslog server to accept the logs.
>
> Also, this is quite a bit different if you are using syslog-ng.
>
> HTH !
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: snort-users-adminlists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:snort-users-adminlists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Pablo Nebrera
> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 6:46 AM
> To: snort-userslists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Snort-users] log to syslog but not to /var/log/snort/ directory
>
> I want to log to syslog and it works perfectly with the syslog output
> plugin. But I have space problems and I don´t want to use the
> /var/log/snort/ directory.
>
> Is that possible??
>
> I have used the -N options and it doesn´t work. With this option doesn´t use
> that directory but it doesn´t log to syslog either.
>
> What option do I have to use??
>
> Thanks for your help
>
>
> Pablo
>
>
>
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