Hi Tim,
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Tim Meader <tmea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a fix for this, and have tried contacting the OSSEC devs numerous
> times, but have yet to hear back.
>
Please forward the fix on to the ossec-dev list, or event post it to
the ossec-users list.
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 3:55 PM, dan (ddp) <ddp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi jplee3,
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 4:11 PM, jplee3 <jpl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hey all,
>> >
>> > I started noticing this message when running the OSSEC batch manager
>> > Perl script:
>> >
>> > [r...@mybox jplee3]# ./ossec-batch-manager.pl -a -n testing1 -i 211 -p
>> > 10.1.1.1
>> > Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ./ossec-batch-manager.pl
>> > line 287, <FH> line 158.
>> > Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ./ossec-batch-manager.pl
>> > line 287, <FH> line 161.
>> > Use of uninitialized value in string eq at ./ossec-batch-manager.pl
>> > line 287, <FH> line 170.
>> >
>> > The agent gets added fine, as far as I can tell. It's just that error
>> > pops up. I have over 200 agents now. I don't recall this being an
>> > issue until lately. Is this a 'false positive' where Perl is
>> > complaining that there's too many agents?
>> >
>> > Line 287 is in the code below:
>> > # If the file isn't readable, the id probably isn't already in it
>> > if (-r AUTH_KEY_FILE) {
>> > open (FH, "<", AUTH_KEY_FILE);
>> > while (<FH>) {
>> > chomp;
>> > my ($id, $name, $ip, $key) = split;
>> > $rval = 1 if ($id == $newid && $rval == 0);
>> > $rval = 2 if ($name eq $newname && $rval == 0);
>> > $rval = 3 if ($ip eq $newip && $rval == 0); #line 287
>> > }
>> > close(FH);
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Any ideas what might be going on here?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> So one of those variables ($id, $newid, or $rval) is not set to
>> anything. You could add some "print" statements in there to find out
>> which one.
>> They could be as simple as:
>> print "XXX id is $id\n"
>
>
>
> --
> Tim
> tmea...@gmail.com
>
