Re: Database logging

Ed Davison <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:31:18 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.ids.snort.snarf
Organization McCombs School of Business
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 05:06, Akerstrom, Peter wrote:
> Version 2.0.0-ODBC-MySQL-WIN32 (Build 72)
> Trying to log to an SQL database but nothing gets written.
>  
> output database: log, mysql, dbname=snort user=snort host=localhost
> password=snort
>  
> Is there an error log file anywhere?
>  
The alert log for snort is where the errors would be logged.

Can you connect to the database with ODBC, say, from MS Access with
those connecton settings?  If not, it would likely be a Mysql
access/authorization problem.

Ed Davison