Nevermind, I was able to use a different port by setting the PGPORT environment variable:
export PGPORT=5489 On Jul 11, 3:32 pm, jla <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > Is there a way to send output to a non-standardportforpostgres? > I'm attempting to send to a server onport5489, but OSSEC uses > 5432. > > I have /var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf configured to send alerts to apostgresDB > with the following config: > > <database_output> > <hostname>ip here</hostname> > <username>ossec_user</username> > <password>secret</password> > <database>ossec_dev</database> > <port>5489</port> > <type>postgresql</type> > </database_output> > > After reading another mailing list message, I was hoping theporttag > would work, but after restarting OSSEC I get this in ossec.log: > > 2011/07/11 15:31:11 ossec-dbd(5202): ERROR: Error connecting to > database 'ip address here'(ossec_dev): ERROR: could not connect to > server: Connection refused > Is the server running on host "ip address here" and accepting > TCP/IP connections onport5432? > > Thank you for any help. > Jason
