I have about 1000 AIX boxes with OSSEC - mostly 6.1 but about 100 5.3.
Let me review my config - I build it on one server, then build the
binary package to distribute to others. I will review it later today
and post my findings and configs for you.

cheers
Kat

On Jul 20, 7:55 pm, Jon Schipp <[email protected]> wrote:
> I installed binutils today, and still no luck.
>
> The ar tool doesn't like the .a files.
>
> I also tried exporting my shell's $PATH to include the linux ar:
> /usr/linux/bin/
> no luck. $ which    - points to the AIX ar utility
>
> Did a "whereis ar" and two ar tools came up in separate locations.
>
> I manually did a "ar cru os_xml.a .....", basically copied the line from
> the install-*ossec*/src/os_xml/MakeFile. I specified the options and
> arguments using absolute paths for each ar binary, to no avail. They
> both can't read it:
>
> File os_xml.a is not an archive file.
>
> *i'm assuming that the binutils package had the ar binary, otherwise
> someone else installed it on this system, (i'm the new admin, other gal
> quit)*
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> On 07/20/11 14:45, dan (ddp) wrote:

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