Re: Snort.org Blog: Snort 2.9.1 beta coming soon!

["Randal T. Rioux" <randy () procyonlabs com>]

Joel - I don't have the time right now to check, but can you verify that
the schemas on the BY2 git site are the most recent from SF:

https://github.com/firnsy/barnyard2/tree/master/schemas

We'll start hacking those once we talk internally about the road forward.

Thanks!
Randy


On 6/15/2011 10:44 PM, Joel Esler wrote:
> I'll put out a blog post closer to the next release targeting what
> output methods will remain and which ones will be depreciated.
>
> Firnsy -- For now, the sql files are in the contrib/ directory of the
> Snort tarball if you want to go ahead and grab those.
>
> Joel
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Steven Sturges wrote:
>
> > To allow users time to transition, we'll add some warnings about 
> > the database output plugin in Snort being deprecated in a future 
> > release, just as we've done with other deprecated features before 
> > they are removed.  From there, we'd plan to fully remove support 
> > with the following (3 digit) release.
> >
> > The schema files (mysql, MS SQL, Oracle, Postgres, DB2) will be 
> > maintained external to Snort.
> >
> > The idea is to make unified2 the primary logging mechanism for 
> > binary data.  We would still keep tcpdump/pcap.
> >
> > This will simplify the build process for Snort for everyone, as 
> > well as minimizing our required testing coverage.
> >
> > Cheers. -steve
> >
> > On 6/15/11 2:20 PM, Joel Esler wrote:
> > > Steve -- Can you chime in here with what we discussed yesterday
> > > in your office?
> > >
> > > Joel
> > >
> > > On Jun 15, 2011, at 8:54 AM, firnsy wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 15/06/11 07:07, Joel Esler wrote:
> > > > > On Jun 14, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Randal T. Rioux wrote:
> > > > > > On 6/14/2011 11:19 AM, Joel Esler wrote:
> > > > > > > So is the barnyard2 project willing to take over
> > > > > > > maintenance of the sql schema totally?  We'd like to
> > > > > > > remove it from the Snort tarball along with the
> > > > > > > direct-to-db output method.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'll chime in and say yes - whether it be firnsy, myself,
> > > > > > etc.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I started this for my own project a couple years ago and
> > > > > > have wanted to do this for a while!
> > > >
> > > > I'll second Randy here and say yes the barnyard2 project is
> > > > willing to take over maintenance of the schema in its
> > > > entirety.
> > > >
> > > > > Roger.  Let us talk over some things internally about how we
> > > > > are going to handle this, and in what versions.  I'll ping
> > > > > you back.
> > > >
> > > > Sure, we can discuss this further offline when you have more
> > > > details of how you want to handover.
> > > >
> > > > Regards, firnsy


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