Re: help on snort

[Joel Esler <jesler () sourcefire com>]

-T means you are running in test mode. You validated your configuration. Exactly what it's supposed to do. 

The warning indicates that you are using the MySQL output method, which we will be removing in the next version of 
Snort. 

Try replacing -T with -D. 

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Joel Esler

On Mar 3, 2012, at 11:28 PM, Jagan Mohan Reddy D <jagan.mohan507 () gmail com> wrote:

> I'm running snort on Ubuntu10.04
>
> I used the following command to run snort...
>
> $ sudo /usr/local/snort/bin/snort --daq-dir=/usr/local/lib/daq -c /usr/local/snort/etc/snort.conf -T
>
>
> I'm always getting the following warning....
>
> Snort successfully validated the configuration!
> database: Closing connection to database "snort"
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !! WARNING: The database output plugins are considered deprecated as
> !!          of Snort 2.9.2 and will be removed in Snort 2.9.3.
> !!          The recommended approach to logging is to use unified2 with
> !!          barnyard2 or similar.
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> database: Closing connection to database "snort"
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> !! WARNING: The database output plugins are considered deprecated as
> !!          of Snort 2.9.2 and will be removed in Snort 2.9.3.
> !!          The recommended approach to logging is to use unified2 with
> !!          barnyard2 or similar.
> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> Snort exiting
>
>
> Can any help me on this.....
>
>
>
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> Thanks & Regards 
> D J M Reddy
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