Hi all,

Rick, you replied to a query of mine (the thread was called "Replaying old 
logs", started 8 Aug).

I've been away since and haven't had the time to test it.

To refresh, I wanted to analyse some old logs and I netcatted them to a file on 
the server where ossec was; and ossec was reading from this file.

I asked the mailing list if this could be done without creating a file, and you 
recommended creating a fifo file with mkfifo. Then netcat should send the log 
to this fifo and ossec should read from it.

Doesn't work, not sure why... I gave the fifo full 777 rights to be sure; and 
when watching fifo with "tail -f", I see that the log appears in the "pipe"...

Have you tried the fifo method? What could be wrong?

BTW, is there a better way to analyse old logs with ossec (better then 
"replaying" them)?

Thanks,
Kal



Kalman Dee
Canberra, Australia
 

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