[ossec-list] Re: want to exclude (rem) rules in ossec.conf and just use syscheck

2014-12-16 Thread Jacob W
Thanks for the 2 replies and I will read the pdf. On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 4:40:58 PM UTC-6, Brent Morris wrote: > > Personally, I wouldn't relegate OSSEC to run the syscheck components > only. I would encourage you to keep the rules... > > OSSEC is noisy at first... but the goal is simpl

[ossec-list] Re: FreeBSD - Agent not working

2014-12-16 Thread Fred974
Hi Dan, This is what I get in debug mode 2014/12/16 22:55:53 ossec-agentd: DEBUG: Starting ... 2014/12/16 22:55:53 ossec-agentd: INFO: Using notify time: 600 and max time to reconnect: 1800 2014/12/16 22:56:36 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan (forwarding database). 2014/12/16 22:56

[ossec-list] Re: want to exclude (rem) rules in ossec.conf and just use syscheck

2014-12-16 Thread Brent Morris
Personally, I wouldn't relegate OSSEC to run the syscheck components only. I would encourage you to keep the rules... OSSEC is noisy at first... but the goal is simple. Find ways to quiet OSSEC without inhibiting its ability to detect and alert you of malicious activity. That second part of

Re: [ossec-list] What to make of ossec-hosts.* files

2014-12-16 Thread finid
Thanks. Since they are all empty files, nothing should break if they are all deleted, right? -- finid On 2014-12-16 15:28, Brent Morris wrote: I think what you're seeing is what is described in CVE-2014-5284 - http://www.ossec.net/?p=1135 Basically, they were in /tmp, and then a vulnerab

Re: [ossec-list] What to make of ossec-hosts.* files

2014-12-16 Thread Brent Morris
I think what you're seeing is what is described in CVE-2014-5284 - http://www.ossec.net/?p=1135 Basically, they were in /tmp, and then a vulnerability was disclosed... so those files were moved from /tmp to /var/ossec in 2.8.1 On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 1:19:15 PM UTC-8, finid wrote: > > On

Re: [ossec-list] Re: How to bypassing need "fully-qualified address"

2014-12-16 Thread Brent Morris
I'm not sure what Google's requirements are to send email. Perhaps a bit out of scope for this discussion group? I can send non-fully qualified emails on servers I own! :) Can you change it to send as yourself to yourself on gmail.com ??? seems like an easy enough test. On Tuesday, Decemb

Re: [ossec-list] What to make of ossec-hosts.* files

2014-12-16 Thread finid
On 2014-12-16 14:59, fi...@vivaldi.net wrote: Hi, I see a bunch of files in /var/ossec with names of the form ossec-hosts.*. what are they and how can I stop the system from creating them? Here are a few examples. ossec-hosts.1i6uugNQB3 ossec-hosts.BFHjPh9dwg ossec-hosts.i4EvjkDXUh ossec-hosts

[ossec-list] What to make of ossec-hosts.* files

2014-12-16 Thread finid
Hi, I see a bunch of files in /var/ossec with names of the form ossec-hosts.*. what are they and how can I stop the system from creating them? Here are a few examples. ossec-hosts.1i6uugNQB3 ossec-hosts.BFHjPh9dwg ossec-hosts.i4EvjkDXUh ossec-hosts.U3thtpzm6b ossec-hosts.1MeJfr9MGt TIA,

Re: [ossec-list] Re: How to bypassing need "fully-qualified address"

2014-12-16 Thread finid
The address is the generic one set by OSSEC (the server does not have a FQDN). Just to clarify some points about the email credentials: 1. If the address is, for example, myname@gmail, and the points to a Google SMTP server, can I have the address be any arbitrary email address? 2. Must

[ossec-list] Re: How to bypassing need "fully-qualified address"

2014-12-16 Thread Brent Morris
what's your address? It should be fully qualified if you're sending to gmail and the like... On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 8:23:16 AM UTC-8, finid wrote: > > In further troubleshooting email issues I have with a couple of servers > not being able to send emails to certain email providers, I ha

[ossec-list] How to bypassing need "fully-qualified address"

2014-12-16 Thread finid
In further troubleshooting email issues I have with a couple of servers not being able to send emails to certain email providers, I have found that OSSEC is actually sending emails, but the other end is rejecting them. So after installing a local SMTP app for OSSEC to send emails, any emails

Re: [ossec-list] want to exclude (rem) rules in ossec.conf and just use syscheck

2014-12-16 Thread dan (ddp)
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Jacob W wrote: > The rules we have right now are generating way too much traffic. My boss has > asked that we rem or comment out the rules so we just have the syscheck > running. > > **I am no Linux guru** > > I went into and made in each rule line. EXAMPLE > -

[ossec-list] want to exclude (rem) rules in ossec.conf and just use syscheck

2014-12-16 Thread Jacob W
The rules we have right now are generating way too much traffic. My boss has asked that we rem or comment out the rules so we just have the syscheck running. **I am no Linux guru** I went into and made in each rule line. EXAMPLE - When I restart the ossec-control then run the start I get:

Re: [ossec-list] How to install ossec in a custom directory

2014-12-16 Thread christophe.egron
Files LOCATION and init were already correct, I applied the modification on src/headers/defs.h. It is now operational on solaris, I am also going to operate the solution on AIX and Linux RedHat. Thank you Darin, Christophe Le jeudi 11 décembre 2014 20:16:16 UTC+1, Darin Perusich a écrit : > >

Re: [ossec-list] segfault in analysisd caused by rule level change

2014-12-16 Thread mjeffe
Ok, Thanks for the advice. On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 7:54:01 AM UTC-6, dan (ddpbsd) wrote: > > I've been playing with it for a while and can't figure it out. You > should probably post an issue to github > (https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids). The devs may pay attention to > it there. > >

Re: [ossec-list] segfault in analysisd caused by rule level change

2014-12-16 Thread dan (ddp)
I've been playing with it for a while and can't figure it out. You should probably post an issue to github (https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids). The devs may pay attention to it there. On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 2:12 PM, wrote: > I decided to give gdb a try again. I can get it to segfault pretty >

Re: [ossec-list] Re: Handling null program_name in local_decoder.xml

2014-12-16 Thread dan (ddp)
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Bill Price wrote: > Thanks, but I already tried that also > > On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 8:20:08 AM UTC-5, dan (ddpbsd) wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Bill Price wrote: >> > Thanks, but still no joy >> > >> > >> > On Monday, December 15, 2014 3:1

Re: [ossec-list] Re: Handling null program_name in local_decoder.xml

2014-12-16 Thread Bill Price
Thanks, but I already tried that also On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 8:20:08 AM UTC-5, dan (ddpbsd) wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Bill Price > wrote: > > Thanks, but still no joy > > > > > > On Monday, December 15, 2014 3:18:43 PM UTC-5, Bill Price wrote: > >> > >> > >> I'm tr

Re: [ossec-list] How to determine database, client-syslog, agentless, debug is enable or disable.

2014-12-16 Thread dan (ddp)
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Huy Võ wrote: > Dear every body, > > I am having problem with command: "$/var/ossec/bin/ossec-control > > > I wonder how can I determine database/client-syslog/agentless/debug is > enable or disable? > > I can not find command to determine they are enable or dis

Re: [ossec-list] Emails alerts not being received

2014-12-16 Thread dan (ddp)
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:45 AM, wrote: > Folks, > > Been testing a couple of servers over here. > > So far all seems well, but for some reason alerts to Google email addresses > are not being received. There's nothing in the logs to tell me whether > something or the other is failing. Alerts to

Re: [ossec-list] Re: Handling null program_name in local_decoder.xml

2014-12-16 Thread dan (ddp)
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Bill Price wrote: > Thanks, but still no joy > > > On Monday, December 15, 2014 3:18:43 PM UTC-5, Bill Price wrote: >> >> >> I'm trying to decode the following message: >> >> Dec 11 06:27:14 snmpd[1469]: last message repeated 23 times. >> >> The pre-coding phase o

[ossec-list] ossec-remoted Process Pegged at 100%

2014-12-16 Thread Chris Decker
Good morning all, I have about 2,000 (heavily active) OSSEC agents sending logs to a Manager. On the Manager side I've noticed that *ossec-remoted* is hovering around 98% to 100% of a CPU. I was under the impression that *ossec-remoted* is multi-threaded, but I only ever see one process run

[ossec-list] How to determine database, client-syslog, agentless, debug is enable or disable.

2014-12-16 Thread Huy Võ
Dear every body, I am having problem with command: "*$/var/ossec/bin/ossec-control I wonder how can I determine database/client-syslog/agentless/debug is *enable* or *disable*? I can not find command to determine they are enable or disable! Can any body help me to solve this problem or solu

[ossec-list] Emails alerts not being received

2014-12-16 Thread finid
Folks, Been testing a couple of servers over here. So far all seems well, but for some reason alerts to Google email addresses are not being received. There's nothing in the logs to tell me whether something or the other is failing. Alerts to another address work, but not to Google. Not even