Automatically email Snort logs

The only way I know to do this is to log your alerts to syslog. Then you need some program that looks at your syslog file periodically such as logcheck or swatch, which are freely available. Step by step instructions for logging to syslog can be found at:
http://www.snort.org/docs/faq.html#5.8

Hi,

I have done quite a bit of work with snort and had the same need.

You probibly don't want to have the actual log files emailed to you because they are fairly hard to read. I used an application called snortsnarf to generate HTML summaries of the logs (which are pretty good).

The command that you want to do (this is just for one file, but you can apply it to any) is:

cat "logfile" | mail "email address"

eg. cat /var/log/snort/alert | mail me@domain.com

Hope this helps, if you need further information feel free to email me vypre@completeit.nu