On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Macus <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have disabled the auto_ignore function like below.
> <syscheck>
>    <scan_time>20:00</scan_time>
>    <alert_new_files>yes</alert_new_files>
>    <auto_ignore>no</auto_ignore>

Did you set this on the manager? I think it's a manager only option.

>    <scan_on_start>no</scan_on_start>
> ....
> </syscheck>
>
> after I execute the "syscheck_control -i 032", it output
>
> ....
>
> Changes for 2012 Jan 27:
> 2012 Jan 27 20:03:14,3 - /etc/passwd
> 2012 Jan 27 20:03:51,3 - /etc/passwd-
> ....
> Changes for 2012 Jan 30:
>
> I did change the /etc/passwd on 28 Jan, 2012 . Why it didn't report
> the md5 change by the ossec server ??
>
> ossec log in the agent.
> 2012/01/28 10:52:02 ossec-agentd: INFO: Event count after '20000':
> 3390610->3033624 (89%)
> 2012/01/28 20:03:20 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan.
> 2012/01/28 22:38:17 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan.
> 2012/01/29 20:03:17 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan.
> 2012/01/29 22:38:17 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan.
> 2012/01/30 00:25:03 ossec-agentd: INFO: Event count after '20000':
> 3361708->3050336 (90%)
> 2012/01/30 16:33:05 ossec-agentd: INFO: Event count after '20000':
> 3374167->3023424 (89%)
> 2012/01/30 20:03:17 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan.
> 2012/01/30 22:38:21 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan.
>
>
>
>
> On 1月30日, 下午11時39分, "dan (ddp)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Macus <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > in the OSSEC Wiki, it states auto_ignore , Specifies if syscheck will
>> > ignore files that change too often (after the third change).
>>
>> > I am using OSSEC 2.6 on Centos 5.3 64bit
>> > What's the mechanism of the auto ignore for a file that change too
>> > often? Does it ignore the file after the third change? How to check if
>> > a file is already ignored?
>>
>> If you don't turn off auto ignore, changes after the third will not be 
>> tracked.
>> The only way I know of to see how many times it's changed is to count
>> the number of entries in the syscheck db:
>> `./syscheck_control -i 001 | grep ossec.conf | wc -l`
>>
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>> > I found a file was changed, but it was not reported by the OSSEC. I
>> > guest the file file was ignored automatically.

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