That really helps.
I am reading former part of the web site and I did not see any thing
mentions how logs are written into files. So perhaps it is better to add
some of such comment on how logs are written in the section such as
"extending log" or generate log framework at the very beginning? And refer
to the reader to the customize log stream in the later section. Just for
the lazy person like me.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Siwek, Jonathan Luke
<jsiwek(a)illinois.edu>wrote;wrote:
From my understanding, it seems that Logs files
can only be created
whenever connection_state_remove event handler is called.
Specifically for the conn.log, that is the event handler in which the log
file entries are written with Log::write(). You can look at where that's
done in base/protocols/conn/main.bro.
For other logs, Log::write() may get called from other event handlers
depending on what the log file is supposed to convey. E.g. in
base/protocols/http/main.bro, you'll see that Log::write() can get called
as soon as an HTTP response body is seen, it doesn't wait for the
connection_state_remove event, but it does use it as a fallback for writing
out incomplete request/response pairs.
I can only customize what to update here. If I
don't update it, log
files are still created with default values. Is there any
way that I can
control when to put values in memory into the log files?
In the case you are extending an existing logging stream, you can update
your new logging state (record fields marked with &log) in any event
handler that you expect to occur before the handlers that do Log::write().
In the case you are designing your own custom logging stream, you get full
control over which event handlers you want to update your logging state and
which ones you want to write to your log stream. For an example see:
http://www.bro-ids.org/documentation/logging.html#adding-streams
+Jon
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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