[Bro] Bro restart not saving logs properly

[William L. Jones]

I noticed that when I a restart bro using the cluster command that the current manager logs are not saved.  What end up in the logs directive is data for only a few minutes as if bro reopened the logs before terminating.  

Could some verify that bro work properly under bsd.  
I am running bro under linux and suspect that this is only a problem under linux and not bsd. 

Bill Jones

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Sommer [mailto:robin at icir.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 3:50 PM
To: William L. Jones
Cc: bro at bro-ids.org
Subject: Re: [Bro] Is there any way to flush the conn log every so often


On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 13:30 -0500, you wrote:

> I would like to force a flush on it every so often. Is there a way
> to do this through a bro config file.

Yes, there are two options:

- file-flush.bro flushes all logs regurlarly (default: every 10s).

- the built-in function set_buf() disables buffering for a
particular log file; see the bro_init() handler in remote.bro for an
example. If there's not much traffic on the line, disabling the
buffering for conn.log shouldn't be a problem.

Roin

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