I forgot to add this in snort.conf:
output alert_fast: alert

This is needed because otherwise snort wouldn't log to /var/log/snort/alert 
anymore.

Kind regards

On Tuesday 10 June 2008 12:45:09 Thomas Wouters wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've been looking for a way to report snort IDS logs to a remote syslog
> server.
> The documentation states that "Currently not every service is able to use
> syslog. Therefore some can only write down to log files and cannot log to a
> remote syslog server. Services which currently cannot use syslog are: all
> sort of HTTP services (administration web server, HTTP proxy, HTTP content
> filter, HAVP), FTP proxy, IDS (snort)." but I really needed it, so I tried
> to figure out how to enable this any way.
>
> So, after a bit of research I've been able to get it to work.
>
> All I had to do was add a rule to /etc/syslog.conf stating that the logs
> should go to a remote hosts:
> *.*    @192.168.1.2
>
> and remove the "-A fast" option in /usr/local/bin/restartsnort.py
>
> In /etc/snort/snort.conf I added the following rule:
> output alert_syslog: LOG AUTH LOG_ALERT
>
> I thought I should share this with you, just so you know...
>
> I hope this helps someone out, some day.
>
> Kind regards



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