Great point David

Grant Leonard
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Rick McClinton <[email protected]> wrote:

> David,
>
> I'm not confident that notepad, wordpad, or notepad++ wouldn't hide the
> byte order marker at the start of a Unicode file.
>
> You mentioned scripting the creation of the key files; did you use
> Powershell for this? In one of our (unrelated) projects, we learned we
> needed to be sure to use the '-Encoding UTF-8' parameter to the 'out-file'
> commandlet; as the default 'Unicode' would insert the byte order marker in
> the output file. We were able to see the BOM when I opened the file with
> GVIM and (IIRC) using the 'type' command, but some other editors did not
> show it.
>
>
>
> HTH;
>
> Rick McClinton
>
> On Monday, October 13, 2014 8:58:07 PM UTC-4, David Masters wrote:
>>
>> I will try the process you suggest tomorrow.
>>
>> As for the rest:
>> there are no duplicate IP's (all agents have been added with the "any" IP
>> configuration) or ID's (all keys were deleted from the client.keys file
>> (except 001) in order to prevent duplicates)(all rid's were deleted
>> afterwards to make sure there weren't any issues there either, all done
>> while the ossec services were stopped)).
>> both files (client.keys and ossec.conf being pushed out) were examined in
>> notepad, wordpad and notepad++ (multiple languanges) to verify there were
>> no extra non-visible characters/line breaks/carriage returns present.
>>
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