Hi Peter, It shouldn't make any different between running OSSEC on a real server or on vmware, so I think these problems are more related to network connectivity or some other issue.
Anyway, to troubleshoot ossec-maild, I would try first to send an e-mail using telnet. From the log, it says that it can't connect to port 25 of the smtp server, so try: $ telnet mailserver 25 If you don't get a reply, you need to check your nat tables/firewall rules to see where it is blocking it. For the second error, from the agent, it seems that the agent is not able to connect to the server, so I would try checking the IPs and if you can connect. A simple test using netcat should work... If you are able to login to IRC, we can try debug it on "real time". Hope it helps. -- Daniel B. Cid dcid ( at ) ossec.net On Dec 18, 2007 4:44 PM, Peter M. Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings: > > I'm having the same problem on a non VPS CentOS 5, 32-bit server. > > 2007/12/18 14:42:58 ossec-agentd(1218): Unable to send message to > server. > 2007/12/18 14:42:58 ossec-agentd(1218): Unable to send message to > server. > 2007/12/18 14:42:58 ossec-agentd(1218): Unable to send message to > server. > 2007/12/18 14:42:58 ossec-agentd(1218): Unable to send message to > server. > 2007/12/18 14:42:58 ossec-agentd(1218): Unable to send message to > server. > > Please advise how I can trouble shoot this problem. > > Thank you. >
