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6.9 How do I get Snort to e-mail me alerts?

You can't. Such a process would slow Snort down too much to make it of any use. Instead, log to syslog and use swatch or logcheck to parse over the plaintext logfiles.

With the Logsurfer docs, this might get you on the road to doing something with Snort and Logsurfer:

JASON HAAR provided an example Swatch (3.1beta) config that emails alerts:

Here are some docs on swatch:

IDS Center (see FAQ [*]) on Win32 will also mail alerts.


Nigel Houghton 2006-10-02
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