Hey, You can tar/untar from another box because the user/init scripts will be missing. The best way is to compile on another box and create a binary install:
http://www.ossec.net/wiki/Know_How:BinaryInstall That way you still run the install.sh to create users, set permissions for you but it will use the binary compiled from the other system. Thanks, -- Daniel B. Cid dcid ( at ) ossec.net On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Res5 <res...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, I need a little bit help from you guys! > > I have a major problem installing and running Ossec on VmWare Esx > server 4.0 supervisor host. When i try to run ./install sh its shows > the error message that the Esx linux does not have any c compiler > installed. VmWare does not have yum or any other package manager so it > will be very hard to install gcc and his dependencies and its not > recommended by VmWare. > So I did google a bit and find out that it is possible to just copy > agent from another Linux and I copied the agent from Debian 5.0. I > untar it to /var/ossec and tried to start /var/ossec/bin/ossec-control > start > But now I have the following error : > > [r...@esx]# /var/ossec/bin/ossec-control start > Starting OSSEC HIDS v2.4 (by Trend Micro Inc.)... > 2010/04/07 09:08:38 ossec-maild(1203): ERROR: Invalid user 'ossecm' or > group 'ossec' given. > ossec-maild: Configuration error. Exiting > > I know that this problem is because users ossecm and ossec does not > exist in VmWare. Now I'm unable to create the users on Esx, tried user > add, add user nothing works. > Please help, is there any other way or some how to for installing > ossec on VmWare Esx 4.0 supervisor host ? > > Thanx in advance > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. >
