You might be better off using a more similar distribution to create the binary, as well. The ESX 4.0 service console is based on RHEL 5.1...
[trevor.kers...@gldds00835 ~]$ cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.1 (Tikanga) I'd try compiling in CentOS 5.1. If you don't mind, tell me how it goes offline or whatever. I'm also interested to see how you get mail working - I didn't think the service console included sendmail/postfix/etc. Trevor Kershaw Technology Solutions & Services BAE Systems, Inc. www.baesystems.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Cid Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 2:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ossec-list] Ossec agent on VmWare Esx 4.0 ? Hey, You can tar/untar from another box because the user/init scripts will be missing. The best way is to compile on another box and create a binary install: http://www.ossec.net/wiki/Know_How:BinaryInstall That way you still run the install.sh to create users, set permissions for you but it will use the binary compiled from the other system. Thanks, -- Daniel B. Cid dcid ( at ) ossec.net On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Res5 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, I need a little bit help from you guys! > > I have a major problem installing and running Ossec on VmWare Esx > server 4.0 supervisor host. When i try to run ./install sh its shows > the error message that the Esx linux does not have any c compiler > installed. VmWare does not have yum or any other package manager so it > will be very hard to install gcc and his dependencies and its not > recommended by VmWare. > So I did google a bit and find out that it is possible to just copy > agent from another Linux and I copied the agent from Debian 5.0. I > untar it to /var/ossec and tried to start /var/ossec/bin/ossec-control > start > But now I have the following error : > > [r...@esx]# /var/ossec/bin/ossec-control start > Starting OSSEC HIDS v2.4 (by Trend Micro Inc.)... > 2010/04/07 09:08:38 ossec-maild(1203): ERROR: Invalid user 'ossecm' or > group 'ossec' given. > ossec-maild: Configuration error. Exiting > > I know that this problem is because users ossecm and ossec does not > exist in VmWare. Now I'm unable to create the users on Esx, tried user > add, add user nothing works. > Please help, is there any other way or some how to for installing > ossec on VmWare Esx 4.0 supervisor host ? > > Thanx in advance > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. >
