Re: Installing Snort

[Michael Lubinski <michael.lubinski () gmail com>]

What is in the rules directory?

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Damien Hull <dhull () section9 us> wrote:

> I compiled snort for Ubuntu 10.04 following the instructions on the
> snort website. I installed the snort rules. Snort and barnyard2 start.
> There are snort files in /var/log/snort. However, there's nothing in
> the log files. The database doesn't contain any info.
>
> I did a port scan of the system. I'm assuming snort should pick that
> up. Again, nothing in the log files or in the database. I'm using
> snort report just like the documentation says.
>
> Can someone point me in some kind of direction? I must be missing
> something.
>
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All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable.
Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security 
threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes 
sense of it. IT sense. And common sense.
http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2

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