Anyone??

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Kevin Reiter
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 2:02 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ossec-list] OSSEC v1.4 - Multiple Logs Definition Error



All,

I'm currently running OSSEC-HIDS v1.4 on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE along with 
Syslog-NG (v2.0.3) and I'm having a problem relating to reading multiple logs.

According to http://www.ossec.net/wiki/index.php/Know_Host:MultipleLogs I can 
use a '*' wildcard in the ossec.conf to specify multiple logs within a 
directory, such as:

<localfile>
 <log_format>syslog</log_format>
 <location>/var/log/*.log</location>
</localfile>

However, when I use the following in my ossec.conf:

<localfile>
 <log_format>syslog</log_format>
 <location>/var/log/current/*.log</location>
</localfile>
(where /var/log/current/ is a symlink to another directory that changes daily)

I get the following error when starting ossec:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/local/ossec-hids/etc]# ossec-control start
Starting OSSEC HIDS v1.4 (by Daniel B. Cid)...
2007/11/20 12:50:04 ossec-logcollector(1901): Missing 'log_format' element.
2007/11/20 12:50:04 ossec-logcollector(1202): Configuration error at 
'/usr/local/ossec-hids/etc/ossec.conf'. Exiting.
2007/11/20 12:50:04 ossec-logcollector(1202): Configuration error at 
'/usr/local/ossec-hids/etc/ossec.conf'. Exiting.
ossec-logcollector: Configuration error. Exiting

Here's the info on the symlink directory:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] [/usr/local/ossec-hids/etc]# ls -l /var/log/current
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  33 Nov 20 12:41 /var/log/current@ -> 
/usr/local/logs/remote/2007/11/20

Has anyone else had a similar issue in the past?  If so, what was the 
resolution?

Thanks,
Kevin


Kevin Reiter
Senior Security Engineer
Financial Services, Inc.
21 Harristown Road
Glen Rock, New Jersey 07452
(201)652-6000, ext. 588
PGP ID: 0xEE665233

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