----- "dan (ddp)" <[email protected]> wrote:

| On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 10:52 AM, --[ UxBoD ]-- <[email protected]>
| wrote:
| > Hi,
| >
| > couple of ideas which would help of very busy systems; unless they
| are already implemented:
| >
| > 1) Ability to schedule when syscheck runs; I appreciate you can set
| the schedule but you cannot set the time when it runs.  If you have
| another process causing a lot of I/O you can get a bottleneck
| > 2) Ability to set the nice level of the running process; does it
| really need to run at '0'
| >
| > Thoughts ?
| >
| > Best Regards,
| >
| >
| 
| 1. Doesn't the scan_time option do this?
| http://www.ossec.net/main/manual/manual-syscheck/#config
| 2. Just renice them to your liking. Which processes are you having
| issues with specifically?

Dan,

1. Was reading the book; oops! :)
2. syscheckd is the one which appears to eat a lot of I/O.  We could set 
/etc/security/limits.conf but if would be nice (pardon the pun) if it could be 
centrally managed via shared/agent.conf with a new parameter.

Thanks,

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