Are you referring to agent_control to kick off syscheck/rootcheck?

I'm also trying to play around with the actual rootcheck binary
(./ossec-rootcheck) to accomplish the same thing, I seem to be having issues
getting it to recognize the test file I'm working with. I'll have to play
with it more.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:37 PM, dan (ddp) <[email protected]> wrote:

> You could use a command for this, and run it as often as you like.
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:46 PM, jplee3 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > So I am researching something for our sysengs working on HPUX. We need
> > to be able to audit a particular configuration file (or more) where a
> > debugging flag can be added (which in turn would begin outputting
> > files containing sensitive data to another directory on the system).
> >
> > Essentially, we want to be alerted if this debugging flag is ever
> > turned on.
> >
> > The first thought was if there is an audit tool equivalent for HPUX
> > (auditd or snoopy) but the syseng mentioned not as far as he knows, so
> > that's not an immediate option.
> >
> > Is it possible to use OSSEC for this purpose? The only thing I can
> > think of is using syscheck, with the 'report changes' option on, and
> > then sending out an alert whenever the "debug" keyword is seen. But
> > I'm not sure that would even be possible.
> >
> >
> > Can anyone shed some light or offer suggestions?
> >
>

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