Arie,
Do you have selinux enabled?

Aaron

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Arjen van Drie <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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