These extras are ok. They won't affect anything. I generally clean
them up every 2 or 3 updates.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 5:53 PM, treydock <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just noticed that after the 2.6-beta update there are some empty
> tags placed in my server's ossec.conf file.  After the section for
> <localfile> I have the following ...
>
>
> 199   <localfile>
> 200     <log_format>syslog</log_format>
> 201     <location>/var/ossec/logs/active-responses.log</location>
> 202   </localfile>
> 203
> 204 </ossec_config>
> 205
> 206 <ossec_config>  <!-- rules global entry -->
> 207 </ossec_config>  <!-- rules global entry -->
> 208
> 209 <ossec_config>  <!-- rules global entry -->
> 210 </ossec_config>  <!-- rules global entry -->
> 211
> 212 <ossec_config>  <!-- rules global entry -->
> 213   <rules>
> 214     <include>rules_config.xml</include>
>
>
> So now my configuration has two seperate <ossec_config> sections that
> actually have settings and two empty.  Doesn't seem to effect
> functionality in any way.  Is there a preferred method for organizing
> the ossec.conf file as far as whether to include everything inside a
> single <ossec_config> tag or to split it up into multiple?
>
> Thanks
> - Trey

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