On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:04 AM, alsdks <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Windows Ossec agent , default ossec.conf configuration, spits out a
> lot of errors  I believe others have noticed it  as well but I could
> not find a relative post .I was wondering if someone knew what they
> mean and how can they be resolved .
>
> For example :
>
>  ossec-agent: WARN: Error opening directory: 'C:\WINDOWS/System32/
> telnet.exe': No such file or directory
>

I see stuff like that all the time, haven't noticed it causing a problem yet.

> This error pops every time the syscheck is run , though the file
> exists and is there.Also Windows is agnostic of the direction of the
> slashes , so there must not be a problem there.If you put the above
> bun in Windows run or in a cmd prompt and hit enter , your are
> presented with a telnet prompt.
>
>
> Another group of mysterious errors that I do not know what affect they
> have to the monitoring ability of OSSEC are the following:
>
>  2012/01/19 15:02:43 ossec-agent(1107): ERROR: Unable to create
> directory: '/var/ossec/queue/diff/local/:\WINDOWS'
>

That's really strange. It seems like something may be amiss in your
config. Is the report_changes option set anywhere?

> 2012/01/19 15:02:43 ossec-agent(1124): ERROR: Unable to rename file:
> 'C:\WINDOWS/System32/drivers/etc/hosts'.
>

I'd have to search the src for the above 2 errors to get any
understanding of the context.

>
> What do they mean ? The first error (1107) refers to Ossec server
> path ?
>
>
> Anyone else noticed this behavior ?
>
> I am trying to troubleshoot Ossec's Windows monitoring unstable
> behavior and am wondering if the above errors are responsible.
>
> Thank you

What do you mean by "unstable behavior?"

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