[Bro] Append instead of overwrite
Johanna Amann
johanna at icir.org
Fri Aug 15 09:37:07 PDT 2014
The problem with that approach is, that Bro would have to check that the
mapping in the files still match. If you change the scripts in-between,
the order or even the number of columns in the log-files might be
different. Which would mean that the header do not fit the file content
anymore.
hat might give you really difficult to parse log-files if you do it by
accident.
Johanna
On 15 Aug 2014, at 8:53, James Lay wrote:
> On 2014-08-15 09:46, Seth Hall wrote:
>> On Aug 15, 2014, at 7:59 AM, James Lay <jlay at slave-tothe-box.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> So I run bro instead of broctl. Currently, if I stop a running
>>>> bro,
>>>> and start it again, bro overwrites any previous log files...is
>>>> there a
>>>> way to change this behavior? Thank you.
>>
>> How would you like it to behave instead?
>>
>> .Seth
>>
>> --
>> Seth Hall
>> International Computer Science Institute
>> (Bro) because everyone has a network
>> http://www.bro.org/
>
> To give me an option to append instead of overwrite. I imagine that
> since broctl does all the file management that this could be a command
> line option...
>
> bro -i eth0 -n local.bro
>
> where -n would be a no overwrite option. In a nutshell "if the files
> don't exist, create them, if they do, just append, without the header,
> to the current file". It could just be a single check on start.
>
> How's that? Thanks Seth.
>
> James
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