3433N/AAdjust snort man page to be in section 1M and fix the comments w.r.t.

3433N/Aconfiguration file usage with the -T option.

1768N/A

3433N/AThe second part of this patch (the -T changes) has been submitted upstream.

3433N/A

3433N/A--- snort.8.orig 2014-09-25 07:44:55.175565999 -0700

3433N/A+++ snort.8 2014-09-26 11:19:43.998692220 -0700

213N/A@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@

213N/A .\" Process this file with

213N/A-.\" groff -man -Tascii snort.8

213N/A+.\" groff -man -Tascii snort.1m

213N/A .\"

213N/A .\" $Id$

1768N/A-.TH SNORT 8 "December 2011"

1768N/A+.TH SNORT 1M "December 2011"

213N/A .SH NAME

213N/A Snort \- open source network intrusion detection system

213N/A .SH SYNOPSIS

3433N/A@@ -339,8 +339,7 @@

3433N/A indicating that everything is ready to proceed. This is a good

3433N/A switch to use if daemon mode is going to be used, it verifies that

3433N/A the Snort configuration that is about to be used is valid and won't fail at

3433N/A-run time. Note, Snort looks for either /etc/snort.conf or ./snort.conf.

3433N/A-If your config lives elsewhere, use the -c option to specify a valid

3433N/A+run time. Note that you will need to use the -c option to specify a valid

3433N/A .I config-file.

3433N/A .IP "-u user"

3433N/A Change the user/UID Snort runs under to

3433N/A@@ -930,15 +929,15 @@

1768N/A Causes the daemon to close all opened files and restart.

213N/A Please \fBnote\fR that this will only work if the \fBfull\fR pathname is

1768N/A used to invoke snort in daemon mode, otherwise snort will just exit with an

1768N/A-error message being sent to \fBsyslogd(8)\fR.

1768N/A+error message being sent to \fBsyslogd(1M)\fR.

1768N/A .PP

213N/A .IP SIGUSR1

213N/A Causes the program to dump its current packet statistical information to the

1768N/A-console or \fBsyslogd(8)\fR if in daemon mode.

1768N/A+console or \fBsyslogd(1M)\fR if in daemon mode.

213N/A .PP

1768N/A .IP SIGUSR2

1768N/A Causes the program to rotate Perfmonitor statistical information to the

1768N/A-console or \fBsyslogd(8)\fR if in daemon mode.

1768N/A+console or \fBsyslogd(1M)\fR if in daemon mode.

1768N/A .PP

1768N/A .IP SIGURG

1768N/A Causes the program to reload attribute table.