Re: [Snort-users] Snort Statistics

Frank,

You're right. Send a USR1 (kill -USR1 <pid of snort>), then check your /var/log/messages (or whatever syslog) file.

Joel

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 04:59:11PM -0500, Frank Knobbe sent me:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 14:28 -0700, Dan Brummer wrote:
> > Is there a way to display the end of program snort statistics from
> > snort running as a daemon? The statistics I'm looking for are:
> >
> > ================================================== =============================
> > Snort received 89 packets
> > Analyzed: 79(88.764%)
> > Dropped: 7(7.865%)
> > Outstanding: 3(3.371%)
> > ================================================== =============================
> > etc etc .....
> >
> >
> > Is this possible?
>
> Wasn't that USR1 or USR2? It should be in the FAQ and/or user guide.
> Send Snort a USR1 signal and watch the output.
>
> -Frank
>
> >
> --
> It is said that the Internet is a public utility. As such, it is best
> compared to a sewer. A big, fat pipe with a bunch of crap sloshing
> against your ports.
>



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