Snort management scripts

In a recent thread on the Internet Storm Center I offered some scripts that I wrote entirely for convenience at the shell prompt. Save each as the # commented title, add them to your working directory, chmod a+x them, and use at will:

For Bleeding-Edge rules, I prefer the single bleeding-all.rules so I use this to update it rather than Oinkmaster:

#bleedingpig
cd /etc/snort/rules/
rm -f bleeding-all.rules
wget http://www.bleedingsnort.com/bleeding-all.rules
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To fire Oinkmaster manually rather than cron:
#oink
oinkmaster.pl -C /etc/oinkmaster.conf -C /etc/autodisable.conf -o /etc/snort/rules
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To kill the daemon:
#killpig
killall snort
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To confirm Snort process state:
#pigps
ps aux | grep snort
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To confirm Snort running cleanly after config or rule changes:
#pigchk
/usr/local/bin/snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -i eth1 -v
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To start the daemon:
#pigd
/usr/local/bin/snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -i eth1 -g snort -D