It's on a long-range TODO list. Along with a million other things :P

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:24 AM, alsdks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
>
> That's what I thought it would need.
>
> So basically to achieve this, removing general /etc monitoring is the
> only option.
>
> Pity though, it would be nice to have those more granular settings
> override the check_all option, or something like that .
>
> Thank you very much !
>
> On Dec 20, 3:56 pm, "dan (ddp)" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:31 AM, alsdks <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Hello list,
>>
>> > I want to be able to report on what changed for specific files under /
>> > etc .
>> > ossec.conf monitors /etc recursively for check_all but I would like
>> > for example to be able to see what changed in hosts, passwd etc .
>>
>> > So I have set up an extra entry that looks like this :
>> >  <directories check_all="yes" realtime="yes" report_changes="yes">/etc/
>> > hosts,/etc/passwd,/etc/group,/etc/resolv.conf,/etc/services</
>> > directories>
>>
>> Don't duplicate entries. If you have the above, you should remove any
>> entries for /etc.
>>
>> > I don't seem to be getting though what changed , only the regular
>> > "Integrity checksum changed for:" with the old and new hash. Realtime
>> > option doesn't seem to work too ..
>>
>> > Am I missing something here ?
>>
>> > Also what if I want to monitor a file under etc for only permission
>> > changes , not size or sum etc.Is this feasible or the parent
>> > (check_all="yes" for /etc) will override more granular settings below
>> > that.
>>
>> The check_all would hopefully win, but there may be other issues. It's
>> hard to tell. The syscheck db isn't very complicated and doesn't
>> always handle duplication well.
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>> > Thank you

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