Yes I believe that the process described using niload will work in
any version of Mac OS X.
In any case for your reference I am copying below the full man page
for niload
As for -r, sorry for the confusion but it IS supported, the man page
for cp says:
COMPATIBILITY
Historic versions of the cp utility had a -r option. This
implementation
supports that option, however, its use is strongly discouraged,
as it
does not correctly copy special files, symbolic links or fifo's.
I do not know why it failed so badly on one of my OS X Server
machines, but when I tried it again on another OS X Server and a
"normal" OS X, everything was compiled correctly.
One other issue, the firewall-drop active-response script does not
work at all!! great shame as I think this would be an essential parto
to ossec's utility... ¿Is there any way to make it work without the
"table" support?
Regards,
Charles
#man niload
NILOAD(8)
NILOAD(8)
NAME
niload - load text or flat-file-format data into NetInfo
SYNOPSIS
niload [ -v ] [ -d ] [ -m ] [ -p ] [ -t ] { -r directory
| format }
domain
DESCRIPTION
niload loads information from standard input into the
given NetInfo
domain. If format is specified, the input is interpreted
according to
the flat-file file format of the same name. The allowed
values for
format are aliases, bootparams, bootptab, fstab, group,
hosts, net-
works, passwd, printcap, protocols, rpc, and services.
If -r directory is specified instead of a flat-file file
format, the
input is interpreted as "raw" NetInfo data, as generated by
nidump -r,
and loaded into directory. Note that this operation will
delete and
replace the entire NetInfo subtree at the specified
directory. Any
existing records in this subtree will be lost.
niload overwrites entries in the existing directory with
those given in
the input. Entries that are in the directory aren't
deleted if they
don't exist in the input, unless the -d option is
specified. niload
must be run as superuser on the master NetInfo server for
the given
domain, unless one specifies the -p option, which allows
one to run
from anywhere in the network.
OPTIONS
-v Verbose. Prints details of records as they are
updated (flat-
file formats only).
-d Delete entries which are in the directory, but not in
the input.
-m Merge properties and values. Existing properties
will be pre-
served in the database if they are not present in
the input.
For example, if a user record has a "picture"
property, loading
a passwd-format record for this user will preserve the
property.
Property values are also merged.
-p Prompt for the root password of the given domain so
that one can
run from other locations in the network besides the
master.
-t Interpret the domain as a tagged domain. For
example, "trot-
ter/network" refers to the database tagged
"network" on the
machine "trotter". The machine name can be an actual
name or an
IP address.
-r Load entries in "raw" format, as generated by
nidump -r. The
first argument should be the path of a NetInfo
directory into
which the information is loaded. Since the input
often speci-
fies properties (including "name") at its topmost
level, the
directory you specify may be renamed as a result of
this opera-
tion. If the directory you specify does not exist,
it will be
created.
SYSTEM USAGE
Most processes on Mac OS X access the information from
the files in
/etc and from NetInfo indirectly through the system
library and the
lookupd daemon. In some cases the files in /etc are
consulted before
NetInfo, making it unnecessary to copy information from
these files
into NetInfo. The files /etc/hosts, /etc/networks, /etc/
services,
/etc/protocols, and /etc/rpcs are consulted before NetInfo.
Additionally, the /etc/exports file is the primary source for
NFS file
share configuration. niload no longer supports loading NFS
file share
information into NetInfo.
See lookupd(8) for more information.
EXAMPLES
"niload passwd . < /etc/passwd" loads the local /etc/passwd
file into
the local NetInfo database.
"niload -d -r /locations ." replaces the contents of /
locations in the
local domain with input given in nidump "raw" format.
SEE ALSO
lookupd(8), nidump(8), niutil(8), netinfo(5), aliases
(5), boot-
params(5), bootptab(5), fstab(5), group(5), hosts(5),
networks(5),
passwd(5), printcap(5), protocols(5), rpc(5), services(5)
Apple Computer, Inc. December 22, 1992
NILOAD(8)
On Aug 9, 2006, at 21:35 , Daniel Cid wrote:
Does the link provided in that message:
http://www.ossec.net/ossec-list/2006-March/msg00030.html
Works for every MacOS? If it does, we can modify the install to
support it... Also, can you confirm that the lowercase "r" is
not supported (for cp)? We would need to fix that for the next
version..
Thanks,
--
Daniel B. Cid
dcid ( at ) ossec.net
On 8/8/06, kef_list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yeah, I got it compile without problems, it is just that nothing gets
installed anywhere...
Since I am using Server, I just created the users via the "Workground
Admin" application, but I do know there are web pages describing how
to add users via command line (using the niload command I believe...)
On Aug 8, 2006, at 21:20 , Lars Scheithauer wrote:
>
> Did you get it compiled so far? I'm currently trying to figure
out a
> way to add the needed groups from cmdline / script for a patch for
> the installationscript, but did not have much time to look into
it so
> far. I did not notice any copy-problems so far on os-x 10.4.7
> (regular, not server).
>
> -- Lars
>
>
> Am 08.08.2006 um 19:29 schrieb kef_list:
>
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I have been trying to install ossec 0.9 under Mac OS X server
>> 10.4.7, but it won't install.
>>
>> I have created manually the required users and group (group
>> "ossec". users: "ossec", "ossecr", "ossecm" and "ossece".)
>>
>> And compilations seems to work, the problem is with the copying of
>> the compiled binaries. For starters I have noticed that it uses
"cp
>> -pr ..." but Mac OS X does not support lower case "r".
>>
>> I have manually changed all instances of "cp -pr" to "cp -pR", but
>> still nothing gets installed except for the main config file
at /etc
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Charles
>>
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