components/snort/patches/snort.8.patch
author Rich Burridge <rich.burridge@oracle.com>
Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:14:43 -0800
changeset 2198 168b8acace5f
parent 1345 ee87318d9935
child 5007 0052258cbb9d
permissions -rw-r--r--
PSARC 2014/346 Data Acquisition library (DAQ) 2.0.2 PSARC 2014/347 snort 2.9.6.2 16915792 The default state of the snort.conf file should be reexamined. 16915848 snort should put files under /etc/snort not directly under /etc 19557337 ipfw DAQ module shouldn't be enabled on Solaris 19696371 Update daq to version 2.0.2 19696436 Update snort to version 2.9.6.2

Adjust snort man page to be in section 1M and fix the comments w.r.t.
configuration file usage with the -T option.

The second part of this patch (the -T changes) has been submitted upstream.

--- snort.8.orig	2014-09-25 07:44:55.175565999 -0700
+++ snort.8	2014-09-26 11:19:43.998692220 -0700
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 .\" Process this file with
-.\" groff -man -Tascii snort.8
+.\" groff -man -Tascii snort.1m
 .\"
 .\" $Id$
-.TH SNORT 8 "December 2011"
+.TH SNORT 1M "December 2011"
 .SH NAME
 Snort \- open source network intrusion detection system
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -339,8 +339,7 @@
 indicating that everything is ready to proceed.  This is a good
 switch to use if daemon mode is going to be used, it verifies that
 the Snort configuration that is about to be used is valid and won't fail at
-run time. Note, Snort looks for either /etc/snort.conf or ./snort.conf.
-If your config lives elsewhere, use the -c option to specify a valid
+run time. Note that you will need to use the -c option to specify a valid
 .I config-file.
 .IP "-u user"
 Change the user/UID Snort runs under to
@@ -930,15 +929,15 @@
 Causes the daemon to close all opened files and restart.
 Please \fBnote\fR that this will only work if the \fBfull\fR pathname is
 used to invoke snort in daemon mode, otherwise snort will just exit with an
-error message being sent to \fBsyslogd(8)\fR.
+error message being sent to \fBsyslogd(1M)\fR.
 .PP
 .IP SIGUSR1
 Causes the program to dump its current packet statistical information to the
-console or \fBsyslogd(8)\fR if in daemon mode.
+console or \fBsyslogd(1M)\fR if in daemon mode.
 .PP
 .IP SIGUSR2
 Causes the program to rotate Perfmonitor statistical information to the 
-console or \fBsyslogd(8)\fR if in daemon mode.
+console or \fBsyslogd(1M)\fR if in daemon mode.
 .PP
 .IP SIGURG
 Causes the program to reload attribute table.