Hi everyone,
I`m trying to enable log forwarding from ossec server to syslog by enabling
client-syslog option from ossec-control script. Running ossec-control
startshows that ossec-csyslogd is started but after that running ossec-control
status ossec-csyslogd dies. When debug is enabled everything is working as
it should and syslog receives messages. Ossec server 2.7, OS RHEL5.9 i386,
selinux disabled.
Any idea anyone where could be a problem?
[root@~ bin]# ./ossec-control enable client-syslog
[root@~ bin]# ./ossec-control restart
Killing ossec-monitord ..
Killing ossec-logcollector ..
Killing ossec-remoted ..
Killing ossec-syscheckd ..
Killing ossec-analysisd ..
ossec-maild not running ..
ossec-execd not running ..
ossec-csyslogd not running ..
OSSEC HIDS v2.7 Stopped
Starting OSSEC HIDS v2.7 (by Trend Micro Inc.)...
Started ossec-csyslogd...
2013/02/18 14:14:25 ossec-maild: INFO: E-Mail notification disabled. Clean
Exit.
Started
ossec-maild...
Started
ossec-execd...
Started
ossec-analysisd...
Started
ossec-logcollector...
Started
ossec-remoted...
Started
ossec-syscheckd...
Started
ossec-monitord...
Completed.
[root@~ bin]# ./ossec-control status
ossec-monitord is running...
ossec-logcollector is running...
ossec-remoted is running...
ossec-syscheckd is running...
ossec-analysisd is running...
ossec-maild not running...
ossec-execd not running...
ossec-csyslogd: Process 6678 not used by ossec, removing ..
ossec-csyslogd not running...
ossec.log contains only one record about ossec-csyslogd, otherwise it`s
clean.
2013/02/18 14:14:25 ossec-csyslogd: INFO: Started (pid: 6678).
[root@~ bin]# ./ossec-control enable
debug
[root@~ bin]# ./ossec-control
restart
Killing ossec-monitord
..
Killing ossec-logcollector
..
Killing ossec-remoted
..
Killing ossec-syscheckd
..
Killing ossec-analysisd
..
ossec-maild not running
..
ossec-execd not running
..
ossec-csyslogd not running
..
OSSEC HIDS v2.7
Stopped
Starting OSSEC HIDS v2.7 (by Trend Micro
Inc.)...
2013/02/18 14:15:41 ossec-csyslogd: DEBUG: Starting
...
Started
ossec-csyslogd...
2013/02/18 14:15:41 ossec-maild: DEBUG: Starting
...
2013/02/18 14:15:41 ossec-maild: INFO: E-Mail notification disabled. Clean
Exit.
Started
ossec-maild...
Started
ossec-execd...
2013/02/18 14:15:41 ossec-analysisd: DEBUG: Starting
...
2013/02/18 14:15:41 ossec-analysisd: DEBUG: Found user/group
...
2013/02/18 14:15:41 ossec-analysisd: DEBUG: Active response initialized
...
2013/02/18 14:15:41 adding rule: .. [adding all rules]
2013/02/18 14:15:41