On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Sun Poon <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam, > > I deployed OSSEC as a HIDS agent to a big old system (SUSE 9 without > inotify) in our company. Being required by my boss, it is essential > for me to report critical file changes ASAP to various system owners. > > With the limitation, I decided to use frequent syscheck to replace the > real-time features. I set the frequency to <frequency>900</frequency>, > I have also disabled the auto-ignore feature. However, it is > discovered that the file change event appears 30 minutes later, or > even not showing up. I have checked that the database is not empty by > using ossec-wui. Is there any configuration error I have made? > > Best Regards, > Sun
How long does a scan take? I can't imagine a scan of any decent size taking less than 900 seconds.
