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RE: Snort Syslog Alerts on Win32
From: Frank Knobbe <fknobbe () knobbeits com>
Date: 04 Jan 2003 19:32:48 -0600
On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 15:59, L. Christopher Luther wrote:
Unfortunately, using the command line parameter for syslog is not an option, exactly because I don't want to clobber the other output plug-ins in the snort.conf file. And it probably will not work anyway under Win32 (see the post/rant I just sent to the list). It appears that "syslog" under Win32 really means "Event Log", which just will not do. Presuming that Snort under Win32 will some day really support syslog output, hopefully then there will also be a "host=" and "port=" option for the alert_syslog plug-in.
Chris, if you search the archives you will come across (almost monthly) postings like yours. I had written a patch to Snort at some time in the past (I think that's almost 2-3 years ago). That patch will allow you to use '-s <host>' on the command line under Windows without nullifying the snort.conf. In other words, Snort still uses all settings from snort.conf but in addition uses the host from '-s' to send syslog alerts to. Why this still hasn't been committed, I can't answer. Even though this issue is raised very frequently, the developers/committers have yet to add a satisfactory solution to the source. My patch worked for me (and others), but I guess wasn't worthy for addition to Snort. Until that issue is finally addresses, we'll see questions like this asked routinely. So, again, search the archives and you'll find a patch for Snort. Apply that to the source, recompile, can you can send syslog alerts to a remote host under Windows. Regards, Frank
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- Snort Syslog Alerts on Win32 L. Christopher Luther (Jan 03)
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- RE: Snort Syslog Alerts on Win32 L. Christopher Luther (Jan 03)
- RE: Snort Syslog Alerts on Win32 Don Weber (Jan 03)
- RE: Snort Syslog Alerts on Win32 L. Christopher Luther (Jan 04)
- RE: Snort Syslog Alerts on Win32 Rich Adamson (Jan 04)
- RE: Snort Syslog Alerts on Win32 Frank Knobbe (Jan 04)
- RE: Snort Syslog Alerts on Win32 L. Christopher Luther (Jan 04)
- RE: Snort Syslog Alerts on Win32 L. Christopher Luther (Jan 04)
- RE: Snort Syslog Alerts on Win32 L. Christopher Luther (Jan 04)
- RE: Snort Syslog Alerts on Win32 Don Weber (Jan 05)