Re: log to syslog but not to /var/log/snort/ directory

[Jason Brvenik <jasonb () sourcefire com>]

I suspect you need to disable some of the output methods.

What is the result of grep output </path/to/snort.conf>

Pablo Nebrera wrote:
> 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-admin () lists sourceforge net
> > [mailto:snort-users-admin () lists sourceforge net] On Behalf Of Pablo Nebrera
> > Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 6:46 AM
> > To: snort-users () lists 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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