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[Snort-users] Snort v2.8.4.1 Ignores config logdir in snort.conf?
From: Eoin Miller <eoin.miller_at_nospam>Date: Fri May 22 2009 - 16:50:02 GMT
To: snort-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Trying to get as much as configuration into the config files as possible
for our snort instances and I cannot figure out why Snort appears to
just ignore the logdir option. This was seriously driving me insane, but
I think it is actually a bug that is going on.
snort.conf:
--snip--
config logdir: /var/log/foo
--snip--
Snort output:
--snip--
Rule application order: activation->dynamic->pass->drop->alert->log
Log directory = /var/log/snort
Verifying Preprocessor Configurations!
--snip--
So, just in screwing around I decided to try and daemonize snort and see if that would change, and the output got more specific as to what was going on:
--snip--
root@host:/etc/snort# snort -c /etc/snort/snort-vrt1.conf
Running in IDS mode
--== Initializing Snort ==--
Initializing Output Plugins!
Initializing Preprocessors!
Initializing Plug-ins!
Parsing Rules file /etc/snort/snort-vrt1.conf
Command line log directory (/var/log/snort) overriding configuration
file log directory (/var/log/foo/)
--snip--
So now why would Snort think I passed a command line log directory when I have only passed the -c option and not the -l? Also, this type of output about the log directory getting overridden that is only shown when you daemonize Snort could be helpful when you are running it in the foreground.
I started looking around in parser.c to see if I could try and figure out/fix this, but I am not that great at C. But I think this might have something to do with it?
--snip--
if(pv.log_dir)
{
strlcpy(buffer, pv.log_dir, STD_BUF);
}
else
{
strlcpy(buffer, "/var/log/snort", STD_BUF);
}
--snip--
So after the above has executed, pv.log_dir would *not* be null correct? So when the following is triggered, since pv.log_dir is not null, Snort will in effect always override to /var/log/snort?
--snip--
else if(!strcasecmp(config, "logdir"))
{
/* Let command line override config file */
if (pv.log_dir == NULL)
{
LogMessage("Found logdir config directive (%s)\n", args);
pv.log_dir = SnortStrdup(args);
DEBUG_WRAP(DebugMessage(DEBUG_INIT, "Log directory = %s\n",
pv.log_dir););
mSplitFree(&rule_toks,num_rule_toks);
mSplitFree(&config_decl,num_config_decl_toks);
}
else
{
LogMessage("Command line log directory (%s) overriding configuration file log directory (%s)\n", pv.log_dir, args);
}
return;
}
--snip--
If you all have any ideas, I would love to stop tearing my hair out. And yes, things appear to work fine if I just use the -l option.
Thanks!
--
Eoin Miller
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