Re: How to exit Snort for Windows correctly?

[Dragos Ruiu <dr () kyx net>]

it depends if you are using IDScenter or not.

at the DOS prompt a good ^C kick should do it :-)

With IDScenter use the start and stop snort button.

As someone else mentioned... check filenames for dos.

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On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Eder Fagundes da Silva wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I am a Win32 Snort recent user and I am evaluating the software. Excuse my
> ignorance but I didn´t get find the answer for it at the Snort
> documentation.
>
> I would like to know the correct form to exit snort on a DOS prompt. When I
> run snort from a dos prompt it keeps executing and my prompt stay locked. So
> I type a "Control+C" to exit its processing.
>
> This way, when I run the command "snort -l ./log -b" it generate a binary
> file with my log. But when I try to read it with a "snort -dv -r
> snort-1213 () 1732 log", snort give the following message:
>
> Log directory = log
> TCPDUMP file reading mode.
> Reading network traffic from "snort-1213 () 1732 log" file.
> ERROR => unable to open file "snort-1213 () 1732 log" for readback:
> snort-1213 () 1732 log: No such file or directory
> Fatal Error, Quitting..
>
> I guess it is because I am exiting the program by a wrong way and so it is
> corrupting the output file.
>
> Somebody could give me some help?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Eder Fagundes

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