Re: Newbie - log and alert - what is the difference?

[Joerg Weber <j.weber () infos de>]

Amazing what one can find in archives[0] and FAQs[1]...

[0] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=snort-users&m=104520114110282&w=2
[1] http://www.theadamsfamily.net/~erek/snort/logging_methods.txt

Cheers!

> Please excuse the daft question, but can anyone explain what the actual
> difference is?  I have got snort, ACID, Barnyard and Mysql working fine,
> using the snort.log, but am not sure what the alert.log will give me.
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> Since with Barnyard you can only select snort.log or alert.log as the
> input files, would one run 2 copies of barnyard?
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> Thanks for any advice!
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> Kind regards,
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> Jon Paterson

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