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Re: [Snort-users] Changing the Encoding format of the payload

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Subject: Re: [Snort-users] Changing the Encoding format of the payload
From: "(infor) urko zurutuza" <uzurutuza@eps.mondragon.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:23:08 +0200
Cc: Dirk_Geschke@genua.de
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Thread-topic: [Snort-users] Changing the Encoding format of the payload
> > Does anybody know how to change the Encoding format of the payload 
> > (from
> hex to ascii) without having to re-run the sql table creation script?
> >
> > I'm logging the data to a Postgres database, and I already tried to:
> >
> >  - Change the snort configuration output to:
> >
> > output database: alert, postgresql, user=xxxxx dbname=xxxxxxx
> password=xxxxxx  encoding=ascii detail=full
> >
> > (then restart snort and postgresql)
> 
> you do not need to restart postgresql, this should just work with the 
> running system. And yes, this is the way how endcoding should be 
> changed although this is only valid for new alerts.
> 
> Does this not work?

I restarted postgres just in case...

Anyway, it still didn't work, until I decided to add another field in the 
output database configuration. I added sensor_name=foo, between password and 
encoding, and that way the encoding format changed, whereas sensor_name 
didn't... 

My last character in the password value is a number, could that be the reason?? 
It's quite confusing, although I have what I was looking for.

Cheers,

URko

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