On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Bruno Plantier
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> It's ossec 2.4-1 coming with Centos 5.6 (Final) distribution.
>

That's pretty old. You should look into upgrading.

> ossec-hids-server-2.4-1.el5.art
> ossec-hids-2.4-1.el5.art
>

What repository did you get these from?

> kernel version is 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>

Configuration?

> Regards,
>
> Bruno
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] De la
> part de dan (ddp)
> Envoyé : lundi 9 janvier 2012 16:21
> À : [email protected]
> Objet : Re: [ossec-list] Re: Concern about the ossec-csyslogd daemon
>
> OSSEC version? Platform? Configuration?
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Bruno Plantier
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello folks.
>>
>> I'm facing the same problem with ossec-csyslogd daemon.
>> Every time I start the process, it crashes after a few minutes.
>>
>> I've tried to get some gdb traces as asked and here is what I get:
>>
>
> I don't know if it will make the backtrace useful, but did you try "set
> follow-fork-mode child" in gdb before running?
>
>> Starting program: /var/ossec/bin/ossec-csyslogd
>> warning: no loadable sections found in added symbol-file
>> system-supplied DSO at 0x2aaaaaaab000 [New process 503] Program
>> received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> [Switching to process 504]
>> 0x000000000040219f in inet_addr ()
>>
>>
>> (gdb) backtrace
>> #0  0x000000000040219f in inet_addr ()
>> #1  0x00000000004024bd in inet_addr ()
>> #2  0x000000000040289f in inet_addr ()
>> #3  0x00000031c081d994 in __libc_start_main () from /lib64/libc.so.6
>> #4  0x0000000000401d79 in inet_addr ()
>> #5  0x00007fffffffea38 in ?? ()
>> #6  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
>>
>> The version installed is :
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Regards
>> -
>> Bruno
>>
>> -----Message d'origine-----
>> De : [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>> De la part de blacklight Envoyé : mardi 7 juin 2011 23:43 À :
>> ossec-list Objet : [ossec-list] Re: Concern about the ossec-csyslogd
>> daemon
>>
>> If I were to put this daemon under gdb, I am concerned that I could be
>> accumulating debugger data this for weeks before this daemon crashes
> again.
>> Hopefully, this daemon crash is a once in a blue moon event. On the
>> other hand, once in a blue moon events are very hard to troubleshoot.
>> If it's indeed a once in a blue moon event, I'll live with that. BTW,
>> I haven't found anything in the /var/log/messages that even hint at a
>> crash. And from reading the /var/ossec/logs/ossec.log at the time of
>> the crash, you'd think that the OSSEC service was the picture of health.
>>
>> On Jun 7, 2:16 pm, Daniel Cid <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> It shouldn't segfault even during a package update... If any of you
>>> can run it under gdb, it would be awesome :)
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Jefferson, Shawn
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > I looked back through my logs and here is the alert:
>>>
>>> > ossec-alerts-06.log:Jun  6 10:12:55 bcfossec kernel:
>>> > [501421.634671]
>>> > ossec-csyslogd[3014]: segfault at 0 ip b7775821 sp bfc4ffbc error 4
>>> > in libc-2.11.1.so[b7702000+153000]
>>>
>>> > To the original poster: what OS are you running your OSSEC server on?
>> I'm on Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS.  I wonder if the segfault was caused by
>> some package being updated/upgraded?
>>>
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: [email protected]
>>> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Cid
>>> > Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 6:48 PM
>>> > To: [email protected]
>>> > Subject: Re: [ossec-list] Concern about the ossec-csyslogd daemon
>>>
>>> > At least OSSEC is reporting it :) And yes, try to run it under gdb
>>> > so we can see where it is crashing. Or try the latest snapshot to
>>> > see if it works there.
>>>
>>> > Thanks,
>>>
>>> > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:58 PM, dan (ddp) <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> Please try running it under gdb:
>>>
>>> >> gdb ossec-csyslogd
>>>
>>> >> (gdb) set follow-fork-mode child
>>> >> (gdb) run
>>>
>>> >> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Jefferson, Shawn
>>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>> Hey, I had the same crash too!
>>>
>>> >>> -----Original Message-----
>>> >>> From: [email protected]
>>> >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of blacklight
>>> >>> Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 2:36 PM
>>> >>> To: ossec-list
>>> >>> Subject: [ossec-list] Concern about the ossec-csyslogd daemon
>>>
>>> >>> Hello Folks,
>>>
>>> >>> I have a concern about the csyslogd demon:
>>>
>>> >>> 2011 Jun 04 13:51:03 Rule Id: 151601 level: 7
>>> >>> Location: ossec-server->/var/log/messages Grouping of kernel
>>> >>> error rules.
>>> >>> Jun 4 13:51:02 ossec-server kernel: ossec-csyslogd[21507]:
>>> >>> segfault at
>>> >>> 0000000000000000 rip 0000003dd8479a30 rsp 00007fff23ba3a88 error
>>> >>> 4
>>>
>>> >>> The ossec-csyslogd daemon crashed over the weekend over a single
>>> >>> segfault. I have no idea what caused this segfault. I am worried
>>> >>> that this daemon is less than rock solid.
>>>
>>> >>> Regards,
>>
>

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