From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 10 11:28:20 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D753337B406 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:28:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from web20103.mail.yahoo.com (web20103.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6962543F85 for ; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:28:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdneophyte@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030210192818.43688.qmail@web20103.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.66.233.46] by web20103.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:28:18 PST Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 11:28:18 -0800 (PST) From: Bsd Neophyte Subject: having syslog log certain results to a mysql database To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i just finished setting up snort to run along with acid and mysql. if followed the tutorial on snort.org. while the tutorial wasn't too bad, it left a great deal out, and it was a pain to get things working. i now have a thought. i have my firewall sending output to my syslog. i would like to set something up similar to what i have with snort. now, i really know nothing about mysql, or scripting for that matter. so, would this be a really big project that is beyond my scope? or is there some easy way to do this? if it is a serious project... what do you recommend as good reading for someone who is not too technically inclined? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message