On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Kat <uncommon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a work-around which I have used.
> Dan is correct - you can't get to the folder outside of the chroot-ed jail.
> You can however, bring the folder in via:
>
> mount --bind /var/ossec/logs /data/logs/ossec
>
> The trick is to bind the directory so the system still thinks it is part of
> the jail.
>

Assuming you're using a system where this is supported:
[ddp@ix] :; man mount | grep bind
[ddp@ix] :;


> Cheers
> Kat
>
>
> On Friday, January 13, 2017 at 1:28:42 PM UTC-6, Joel wrote:
>>
>> hi all,
>>
>> man, not having a good day.
>>
>> I was starting to run out of space on my / volume as a result of ossec
>> logs piling up.   i need to keep the logs, so i added a new drive (to the
>> ossec VMW vm) mounted it and then moved the logs/ directory to the new
>> mount.
>>
>> now, when starting ossec, ossec-analysisd won't start.  I think it's
>> trying to chroot and can't cross the filesystem boundary...?
>>
>>> 2017/01/13 19:24:47 ossec-analysisd(1210): ERROR: Queue
>>> '/queue/alerts/ar' not accessible: 'Connection refused'.
>>> 2017/01/13 19:24:47 ossec-analysisd(1301): ERROR: Unable to connect to
>>> active response queue.
>>> 2017/01/13 19:24:50 ossec-analysisd(1210): ERROR: Queue
>>> '/queue/alerts/execq' not accessible: 'Connection refused'.
>>> 2017/01/13 19:24:50 ossec-analysisd(1301): ERROR: Unable to connect to
>>> active response queue.
>>> 2017/01/13 19:24:50 ossec-analysisd: DEBUG: Active response Init
>>> completed.
>>> 2017/01/13 19:24:50 ossec-analysisd(1107): ERROR: Could not create
>>> directory '/logs/archives/2017/' due to [(2)-(No such file or directory)].
>>
>>
>> and
>>
>>> [root@e-ossec-001: /var/ossec]# ls -ald /data/logs/ossec/
>>> drwxr-xr-x 6 ossec ossec 129 Jan 13 19:03 /data/logs/ossec/
>>> [root@e-ossec-001: /var/ossec]# ls -al /var/ossec/
>>> total 24
>>> dr-xr-x---  16 root  ossec 4096 Jan 13 18:55 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x. 20 root  root  4096 Jan 13 19:21 ..
>>> dr-xr-x---   3 root  ossec   16 Jan 12 22:05 active-response
>>> dr-xr-x---   2 root  ossec 4096 Oct  6 13:37 agentless
>>> drwxr-x---   3 root  ossec   19 Oct  6 13:37 backup
>>> dr-xr-x---   2 root  root  4096 Jan 12 18:43 bin
>>> dr-xr-x---   5 root  ossec 4096 Jan 13 16:34 etc
>>> drwxr-x---   2 root  ossec   34 Oct  6 13:37 integrations
>>> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root  root    16 Jan 13 18:55 logs -> /data/logs/ossec
>>> dr-xr-x---   4 root  root    34 Oct  6 13:37 lua
>>> dr-xr-x---  11 root  ossec  150 Oct  6 13:38 queue
>>> dr-xr-x---   2 root  ossec 4096 Oct 17 13:36 rules
>>> drwx------   2 root  ossec    6 Oct  6 13:37 .ssh
>>> drwxr-x---   5 ossec ossec   61 Oct  6 13:57 stats
>>> dr-xr-x--T   2 root  ossec    6 Oct  6 13:37 tmp
>>> dr-xr-x---   3 root  root    20 Oct  6 13:37 update
>>> dr-xr-x---   3 root  ossec   16 Jan 13 19:24 var
>>
>>
>> do I need to keep it allon the same volume?
>>
>> thanks!
>>
>> Joel
>
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