RE: [Snort-users] Snort auotmatic email alert.

Hmmm... At the risk of "making this more complicated" you might consider
"swatch" by Todd Atkins. It allows a bit of flexibility in what gets =
sent
and how often (i.e. wouldn't send 5000 messages in 1 minute, could send =
a
"saw this 5000 times in 1 minute" email)

Works off tailing the snort (or any other) log file and uses simple
expressions to determine what action (email, command, etc. ) to run.

Later,
Jim


-----Original Message-----
From: snort-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:snort-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Frank =
Knobbe
Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 7:24 PM
To: Lyndon Tiu; snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Snort auotmatic email alert.


On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 19:23, Erik Fichtner wrote:
> My god.. another notification tool that's wrapped all up in MySQL.=20
> Don't make this harder than it needs to be.

heh... I agree. Below is what I use for email alerts. It goes through =
all
/var/log/*snort* directories (if you have more than one instance of =
snort
running), but you may need to adjust path or filter name. Also, make =
sure
you have:
output log_ascii:
in your snort.conf and that you run it with "-l /var/log/snort-something =
-d"
(application layer dump comes in really handy. Further replace mailsubj =
with
sendmail or whatever else you use.

I suggest using cron to run this every minute.

Regards,
Frank

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#! /bin/sh

if [ -e /var/run/mailsnort ];then
echo MailSnort already running... skipping this instance...
exit 0
fi
touch /var/run/mailsnort
for logdir in `ls /var/log | grep snort`;do
cd /var/log/$logdir
for dir in `ls | grep -v alert.ids`;do
cd $dir
echo Sending $dir
for file in `ls`;do
cat $file | mailsubj "$logdir: $dir - $file"
your@address.here.com
rm $file
done
cd ..
rmdir $dir 2> /dev/null
done
done
rm /var/run/mailsnort

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