Doh! Never mind. My bad.
I had made changes to the startup script to dynamically replace the
prune_log_max value with the maximum allowed value, so my test with
value '0' never got tested since the 0 got overwritten at startup.
Now I have fixed the startup script not to mess with prune_log_max and S5
is indeed not spamming the syslog any more.
Thanks. And sorry.
/Elof
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, [email protected] wrote:
>
> This is a bump to inform you that the problem persists in snort 2.9.8.0.
>
> I see that the source code has been altered in the sections that log the
> "S5: Session exceeded" messages, but apparently the bug was not fixed.
>
> The manual still states:
>
> prune_log_max <num bytes>
>
> Print a message when a session terminates that was consuming more than the
> specified number of bytes. The default is "1048576" (1MB), minimum can be
> either "0" (disabled) or if not disabled the minimum is "1024" and maximum
> is "1073741824".
>
>
>
> I set it to 0, but still get thousands of S5 lines in the syslog.
>
> /Elof
>
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, Victor Roemer wrote:
>
>> Elof, I'm aware of changes to Snort which we've added new "config:"
>> options to make Stream5 less noisy. I'll have to check but they should
>> be in the next major release.
>>
>> ~Victor
>>
>> On 03/27/15 9:20, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Will this bug ever be fixed?
>>>>
>>>> See my initial report from 2 years ago, http://seclists.org/snort/2013/q1/952
>>>> and the proposed solution by Gregory in http://seclists.org/snort/2013/q1/967
>>>
>>> I tried to mute the flood of prune-messages by setting prune_log_max to 1073741824, but it still spam my syslog. :(
>>>
>>> Perhaps you should review the logging mechanism? I think setting
>>> prune_log_max to either 0 or the maximum value should disable the logging
>>> completely.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I then tried an even higher value, to make it shut up, but then I get:
>>>
>>> snort[64286]: FATAL ERROR: snort.conf(178) => Invalid Prune Log Max. Must be 0 (disabled) or between 1024 and 1073741824
>>>
>>>
>>> So I revert back to filtering the spam in my syslog-conf instead. :-/
>>>
>>> /Elof
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