This seems to have solved the same syscheckd problem on FreeBSD 6.3
except that for the installed port the directory is /usr/local/ossec-
hids/queue/syscheck.

On Jan 21, 8:52 am, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Thanks Dan
>
> removal instructions much appreciated.
>
> Pete
>
> On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 06:19 -0400, Daniel Cid wrote:
> > Hi Pete,
>
> > I think your problem is really related to moving the ossec installs
> > around. To properly remove it,
> > just:
>
> > 1-Stop the ossec processes
> > 2-Remove the /var/ossec directory
> > 3-Remove /etc/ossec-init.conf
>
> > As for syscheck, all its data is stored at /var/ossec/queue/syscheck.
> > So, if you remove any file
> > stored in there (after stopping ossec), you should clean it up.
>
> > Hope it helps.
>
> > --
> > Daniel B. Cid
> > dcid ( at ) ossec.net
>
> > On Jan 18, 2008 10:40 AM, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > We haven't touched configuration in internal_options nor in syscheck
> > > configs and had been running fine for over 2 years then bam!
>
> > > As part of the syscheck, is there some internal store of data which has
> > > gotten into a mess? If so, can I delete it and restart?
>
> > > thanks
>
> > > Pete
>
> > > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 10:17 -0200, Rodrigo Montoro (Sp0oKeR) wrote:
> > > >   Hi Peter,
> > > >     Try some tunning at /var/ossec/etc/internal_options.conf
> > > >     And which directories are you checking with syscheck?
>
> > > > Regards,
>
> > > > Rodrigo Montoro (Sp0oKeR)
>
> > > > On Jan 18, 2008 7:33 AM, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi OSSEC has been doing a great job for us on around 7 Debian and 
> > > > > Ubuntu
> > > > > servers for the last few years. Thank you !!
>
> > > > > However recently whilst doing some maintenance and server rebuilds we
> > > > > have run into problems on 2 machines were we get CPU hitting 90% for
> > > > > like 4 days either on analysisd or syscheckd.  On one machine (the 
> > > > > OSSEC
> > > > > server) we removed a large amount of backup ~20 G. On the other 
> > > > > machine
> > > > > (ossec client to this server) we moved the OSSEC install directory.
>
> > > > > Somehow I think the processes are trying to figure out where all this
> > > > > data has gone.
>
> > > > > We were running on ver 1.2 so I have upgraded to 1.4 using tarball but
> > > > > problem happens after a few days. Do you have any solution or guidance
> > > > > on how to effectively remove ossec and re-install?
>
> > > > > Thanks
>
> > > > > Pete

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