WallWatcher-Like Program For Linux?

When I was using Windows XP, I used a program called WallWatcher to analyze everything going in and out of my router. Yet, I can't seem to find a Linux equivalent for this program. I posted this question on the Linux Mint forums, and I'm posting it here to see if anybody has any suggestions...Thanks.

 

Well, I'm not real familiar with WallWatcher, I've never even heard of it before, but I checked out the home page for it, and it looks pretty cool. I think I'll give it a try on my XP system.

From what I can tell, I think you may want to check out a program called Snort.

Here's a link.

http://www.snort.org/

 

Thanx man, I checked the link and I don't think Snort will work for me, I just need a program that will let me analyze my linksys incoming/outgoing logs in real time.

I was able to figure out how to get WallWatcher working via Wine and it does seem to be fully functional and all, but I would rather prefer if there was a native Linux program that was similar to WallWatcher...When I was using XP, WallWatcher could start up and start logging as soon as you were logged on, on Linux, WallWatcher has to be run as root to receive connections to the syslog server, which would mean having to always go to the terminal and use root everytime I want to run the program after rebooting.

 

Can't you just change permissions for the program?

 

Yeah, I've done that, but what's wierd for me is that, whenever I log in, and try to start the program directly from the launcher I created, nothing will happen. But when I type the command thru the terminal, it will ask for the password and then it will run. Only after that will the program run directly thru nautilus/launcher.

I'm still quite new to the Linux world so I don't know if I'm doing something wrong.

 

I know there's something to do exactly what you want, I just can't tell you what it is right now....been a long time. Keep searching, it's out there (somewhere

 

haha...I been looking alllll over the place, and with no luck. If it's out there, it's out there, and I'll keep looking...for right now, I gotta really figure this Wine and WallWatcher out.

 

I'll keep my eye open....

 

That's because you ran Windows as a root user. Linux won't let you open up a program that listens on a port <1024 unless you're root. It's actually a good idea, and I think even Windows does that. Reconfigure the port that your Linksys logs to if you want to run it as an unpriveliged user, or set the program SUID, you may even possibly need to run wine that way. Which isn't a great idea.

Also, you may reconsider google as a resource. It has lots of neat links if you search for "linksys log linux".

 

'preciate it.

 

You know, I didn't think to search for a "linksys log linux", cause I'm thinking "WallWatcher Clone" the whole time, lol.

I did search for that, and I did come across a few options that looked promising (especially that JLinksysLogger program)...But after searching through google, and even searching thru SourceForge for "linksys", unfortunately, 'til I find me a really similar native program, I think I'm gonna stick with running WallWatcher thru Wine for now; I actually couldn't get any of the potentials I found on SourceForge to work right, or in some cases even start up...

I also figured how to get WallWatcher to run automatically without setting the program or Wine thru SUID; I just edited my sudoers file thru visudo (I'm learning so much, lol) and set it to run the program without prompting for the password. I assume that would be safer than setting a SUID?