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Well, i've given oinkmaster a try and like what I see so far. It's really |
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nice that it displays what it is changing. I'm not ready to trust it to a |
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cron job yet (i'll give it some time), but it is exactly what I wanted. |
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Thanks to all who offered suggestions! |
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> I too use oinkmaster on a weekly basis to download the current ruleset and |
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> roll in the changes. |
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> As long as you sort out your perms on the /etc/snort directory it's fine. |
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> I just run it from the snort users crontab. |
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> Regards, |
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> Cammy. |
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> Ryan said: |
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>> I just recently installed snort on a machine to watch my network. I see |
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>> that there are several scripts out there that support automatic updating |
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>> of the snort ruleset to keep it current. Could anyone recommend a |
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>> program |
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>> for doing that or comment on their experience with them? I'd just like |
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>> have some means of automatically downloading new rules and installing |
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>> them. Also, is there an "emerge snortrules" or some similar ebuild that |
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>> I've missed? |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Ryan |
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