Are you sure you did a cd to /var/www/ossecwui/ before running
setup.sh?
Because I followed the instructions from the installation guide and
the tmp/ dir was created.

I just had a quick look at the install script and it seems to run a
"mkdir tmp" during installation.

Enjoy your wui search feature.

On Dec 11, 3:20 pm, David Alanis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Quoting oscar schneider <[email protected]>:
>
>
>
> > Hey,
>
> > I think the tmp/ subdir in the ossec dir should have "ossec" as group.
> > The tmp/ dir in the folder where your webUI is located should have
> > "lighttpd" as group and have chmod 770.
>
> > Maybe you just executed
> > "
> > 6- Fix the permissions for the tmp directory and restart Apache (for
> > the new permissions to work)
>
> >    # chmod 770 tmp/
> >    # chgrp www tmp/
> >    # apachectl restart
> > "
>
> > in the wrong dir (you have to do it in the dir where your web
> > documents are stored, subdir of the ossec wui, e.g. /var/www/
> > ossecwui/ ).
>
> > Kind regards,
>
> > oscar
>
> > On Dec 10, 11:28 pm, David Alanis <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Good Day All-
>
> >> My sincere apologies, I know this topic is elementary but I have been  
> >> unable to fix this.
>
> >> I have the latest Ossec 2.3 and WUI on a Gentoo box running on top of  
> >> lighttpd.
>
> >> I have followed the instructions on the  
> >> WIKI:http://www.ossec.net/wiki/OSSECWUI:Install
>
> >> And I am still getting an error as reported  
> >> here:http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03767.html
>
> >> These are my perms in /var/ossec:
>
> >> drwxrwx--- 13 root  ossec    4096 Nov 10 15:23 .
> >> drwxr-xr-x 18 root  root     4096 Nov 10 15:23 ..
> >> drwx------  2 ossec ossec    4096 Nov 10 15:23 .ssh
> >> dr-xr-x---  3 root  ossec    4096 Nov 10 15:23 active-response
> >> dr-xr-x---  2 root  ossec    4096 Nov 10 15:23 agentless
> >> dr-xr-x---  2 root  ossec    4096 Nov 10 15:23 bin
> >> dr-xr-x---  3 root  ossec    4096 Dec 10 16:36 etc
> >> drwxr-x---  5 ossec ossec    4096 Nov 30 15:05 logs
> >> dr-xr-x--- 11 root  ossec    4096 Nov 10 15:23 queue
> >> dr-xr-x---  4 root  ossec    4096 Dec 10 16:36 rules
> >> drwxr-x---  5 ossec ossec    4096 Nov 10 15:44 stats
> >> drwxrwx---  2 root  lighttpd 4096 Nov 10 15:23 tmp
> >> dr-xr-x---  3 root  ossec    4096 Dec 10 16:36 var
>
> >> Also added lighttpd to the ossec group.
>
> >> Anybody on the list running ossec-wui on top of lighttpd with the  
> >> search function running properly?
>
> >> Thanks,
> >> SDA
>
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> Oscar-
>
> Thank you very much for your help. As soon as I created a dir tmp/  
> under my wui dir in /var/www/ it worked. I appreciate your time in  
> responding to my dilema.
>
> Although this isn't such a big deal shouldn't the install directions  
> state to create a tmp/ directory under the wui installation directory  
> to make i better understood, perhaps adjust the wui install script to  
> make this directory upon installation?
>
> Thank you.
> SDA
>
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