Which version are you using on the hpux box? There's a snapshot that
is suspected to fix some hpux issues: http://www.ossec.net/dcid/?p=204

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 8:40 AM, marco <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi list,
> I'm pretty new here (just subscribed). I've installed ossec yesterday
> and trying to use it to monitor one linux box and one HP-UX box.
> I installed the agent on HP-UX and got the "socket busy" error. I've
> seen some post here about a bug for the agent on HP-UX, with no
> solution.
>
> Here it is:
> 2010/10/20 14:04:28 ossec-logcollector: socket busy ..
> 2010/10/20 14:04:28 ossec-logcollector(1224): ERROR: Error sending
> message to queue.
> 2010/10/20 14:04:29 ossec-syscheckd: socket busy ..
> 2010/10/20 14:04:39 ossec-syscheckd: socket busy ..
> 2010/10/20 14:04:39 ossec-syscheckd: socketerr (not available).
> 2010/10/20 14:04:39 ossec-syscheckd(1224): ERROR: Error sending
> message to queue.
> 2010/10/20 14:04:49 ossec-syscheckd: socket busy ..
> 2010/10/20 14:04:59 ossec-syscheckd: socket busy ..
> [...]
>
> What I've just discovered is: if you do a stop & start of the agent
> (NOT a restart), the agent seems to work fine (tested twice). Actually
> I don't know why and I'm going to investigate a bit (but I'm not a hp-
> ux expert).
> This hp-ux box is "almost" for testing purposes, so if some of you
> feel like doing some test... just let me know.
>
> I'd like to see this problem solved to move Ossec to our production
> environment :)
>
> Thanks a lot for your attention.
>
> Marco

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