components/snort/patches/snort.8.patch
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Adjust snort man page to be in section 1M and fix the comments w.r.t.
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configuration file usage with the -T option.
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The second part of this patch (the -T changes) has been submitted upstream.
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--- snort.8.orig	2014-09-25 07:44:55.175565999 -0700
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+++ snort.8	2014-09-26 11:19:43.998692220 -0700
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 .\" Process this file with
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-.\" groff -man -Tascii snort.8
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+.\" groff -man -Tascii snort.1m
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 .\"
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 .\" $Id$
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-.TH SNORT 8 "December 2011"
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+.TH SNORT 1M "December 2011"
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 .SH NAME
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 Snort \- open source network intrusion detection system
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 .SH SYNOPSIS
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@@ -339,8 +339,7 @@
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 indicating that everything is ready to proceed.  This is a good
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 switch to use if daemon mode is going to be used, it verifies that
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 the Snort configuration that is about to be used is valid and won't fail at
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-run time. Note, Snort looks for either /etc/snort.conf or ./snort.conf.
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-If your config lives elsewhere, use the -c option to specify a valid
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+run time. Note that you will need to use the -c option to specify a valid
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 .I config-file.
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 .IP "-u user"
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 Change the user/UID Snort runs under to
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 Causes the daemon to close all opened files and restart.
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 Please \fBnote\fR that this will only work if the \fBfull\fR pathname is
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 used to invoke snort in daemon mode, otherwise snort will just exit with an
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-error message being sent to \fBsyslogd(8)\fR.
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+error message being sent to \fBsyslogd(1M)\fR.
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 .PP
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 .IP SIGUSR1
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 Causes the program to dump its current packet statistical information to the
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-console or \fBsyslogd(8)\fR if in daemon mode.
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+console or \fBsyslogd(1M)\fR if in daemon mode.
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 .PP
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 .IP SIGUSR2
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 Causes the program to rotate Perfmonitor statistical information to the 
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-console or \fBsyslogd(8)\fR if in daemon mode.
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+console or \fBsyslogd(1M)\fR if in daemon mode.
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 .PP
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 .IP SIGURG
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 Causes the program to reload attribute table.