Security — Installing and monitoring snort logs.

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:06:49 +0000

Snort is a very good security tool to install if you are concerned about the security of your system. I find it really useful but the problem is I keep forgetting to monitor the logs so what did I do, I installed snort and configured cron to send to logs everyday, here’s how.

On fedora, snort is available in the repository but the rules are not. So to install snort just type in the following in a terminal:

Snort on Amit Agarwal Linux Blog

Security — Installing and monitoring snort logs.