How to view snort log files

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M.S Balagopal picture M.S Balagopal · Aug 13, 2010 · Viewed 84.2k times · Source

I have been working with snort-IDS. I have got some log files at /var/log/snort. The files are of type snort.log.xxxx. How do i view this file???

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Kinka picture Kinka · Feb 26, 2012

Actually, you can read them in the commandline or terminal like snort -r xx.log.xxx$.For details, referring to the manual of snort.

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