Hi Trevor,

Thanks for the report. It has been fixed on the latest snapshot:
http://www.ossec.net/files/snapshots/ossec-hids-100324.tar.gz

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Daniel B. Cid
dcid ( at ) ossec.net

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:59 PM, tm <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using OSSEC 2.3.  The first part of the smbd_rules.xml file looks
> like this:
>
>  <rule id="13100" level="0" noalert="1">
>    <match>^smbd</match>
>    <description>Grouping for the smbd rules.</description>
>  </rule>
>
> It should be:
>
>  <rule id="13100" level="0" noalert="1">
>    <decoded_as>smbd</decoded_as>
>    <description>Grouping for the smbd rules.</description>
>  </rule>
>
> It's because "smbd" does not show up at the start of a log.  This came
> to light when I started receiving alerts like this:
>
> Received From: reliant->/var/log/messages
> Rule: 1002 fired (level 2) -> "Unknown problem somewhere in the
> system."
> Portion of the log(s):
>
> Mar 22 13:50:45 reliant smbd[18447]:   getpeername failed. Error was
> Transport endpoint is not connected
>
> Now there's a rule in smbd_rules.xml (13101) which should have caught
> it and ignored it.  But, 13101 is a child of 13100.  Turns out that
> 13100 was never firing because of the bug noted above.
>
> Hope this helps someone.
>
> Trevor
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