Hello,

When the OSSEC agent on our Solaris 9 agents starts up, it establishes
a connection with the OSSEC server but the /opt/ossec/etc/shared/
ar.conf file is not being created.  Consequently, if the OSSEC server
tells the OSSEC agent to activate a particular active response a
message appears like the following in the ossec.conf file on the
agent:

2010/05/20 14:09:40 ossec-execd(1103): ERROR: Unable to open file '/
opt/ossec/2.4/etc/shared/ar.conf'.
2010/05/20 14:09:40 ossec-execd(1311): ERROR: Invalid command name
'restart-ossec0' provided.

I used the "agent_control -R id" command on the OSSEC server to cause
the message above.  Similar messages are generated for other active
responses.

The agent is sending events to the server because I can see them in
the logs on the server.  There are no error messages in ossec.conf on
the agent when it starts up.

Our OSSEC agents on Solaris 10 hosts do not exhibit this behaviour.

Also, the /opt/ossec/etc/shared/merged.mg file is not being created
either.

The permissions on the /opt/ossec/etc/shared directory look fine.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what might be causing this problem?
Is there anyway to turn on some sort of debugging on the agent that
might provide some clues?

Trevor

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