Hi,

this one is solved. Whether it is a bug or not, dunno.

It was solved by adding a first client to the server. I lost quite a few
hours trying to find this one out; maybe something to add to the
documentation ?

Best Regards,
Arie.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Arjen van Drie <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:44 AM
Subject: nothing listening on unix socket /queue/alerts/ar
To: ossec-list <[email protected]>


Sorry if this turns out to be a repost to the list; I did not see it
appear.

Hi,

I am trying to get ossec running on CentOS release 5.2, kernel
2.6.18-92.1.10.el5xen, a xen guest. I get in my logs

2009/02/17 12:15:23 ossec-analysisd(1210): ERROR: Queue '/queue/alerts/
ar' not accessible: 'Connection refused'.
2009/02/17 12:15:23 ossec-analysisd(1301): ERROR: Unable to connect to
active response queue.
2009/02/17 12:17:43 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Connected to '/queue/alerts/
execq' (exec queue)

ossec-analysisd should create this socket on startup if it does not
exist I think I read from the code. When I strace the running ossec-
analysisd daemon while I am doing a level 10 alert action (multiple
failing ssh logins), it does receive from /queue/alerts/execq, so
there is a working socket.

[r...@ossec alerts]# pwd
/opt/ossec/queue/alerts
[r...@ossec alerts]# ls -la
total 8
drwxrwx--- 2 ossec  ossec 4096 Feb 17 12:28 .
dr-xr-x--- 9 root   ossec 4096 Feb 17 11:56 ..
srw-rw---- 1 ossecr ossec 0 Feb 17 12:28 ar
srw-rw---- 1 root   ossec 0 Feb 17 12:28 execq
[r...@ossec alerts]# ps auwwwx | grep ossec-analysisd | grep -v grep
ossec    32740  0.1  0.1   7016  1740 ?        S    12:28   0:01 /opt/
ossec/bin/ossec-analysisd
[r...@ossec alerts]# id ossec
uid=507(ossec) gid=508(ossec) groups=508(ossec)


I found some similar questions through google, but none seemed to
bring me closer to a solution. I assume that firewall rules creation a
the like are being done through the ar queue?

Thanks for any pointing in the right direction.

Arie.

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