You need to build a binary install. http://www.ossec.net/doc/manual/installation/installation-binary.html
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Christopher Werby <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to set OSSEC up as "local" on a VPS hosted by Dreamhost (running > the Debian 6.0, Linux kernal release 3.1.9-vs2.3.2.5). I've done this twice > before using older versions of OSSEC without difficulty. > > When running the register_rule.sh script, the installer dies with a > permission error. I tried to change the permissions and made the > register_rule.sh file 777 with no luck. I'm executing the script as root > (using sudo su). > > I've reproduced the onscreen display starting from just before the point it > dies. > >> make[3]: Leaving directory >> `/tmp/ossec-hids-2.6/src/analysisd/decoders/plugins' >> gcc -g -Wall -I../../ -I../../headers -DDEFAULTDIR=\"/var/ossec\" -DLOCAL >> -DUSE_OPENSSL -DUSEINOTIFY -DARGV0=\"ossec-analysisd\" -DXML_VAR=\"var\" >> -DOSSECHIDS -I../ -c *.c >> ar cru decoders.a *.o plugins/*.o >> ranlib decoders.a >> make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/ossec-hids-2.6/src/analysisd/decoders' >> cd ./compiled_rules; make; >> make[2]: Entering directory >> `/tmp/ossec-hids-2.6/src/analysisd/compiled_rules' >> ./register_rule.sh build >> make[2]: execvp: ./register_rule.sh: Permission denied >> make[2]: *** [plugins] Error 127 >> make[2]: Leaving directory >> `/tmp/ossec-hids-2.6/src/analysisd/compiled_rules' >> make[1]: *** [logaudit] Error 2 >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/ossec-hids-2.6/src/analysisd' >> Error Making analysisd >> make: *** [all] Error 1 >> Error 0x5. >> Building error. Unable to finish the installation. > > > > Any thoughts on how I might fix this? > > Thanks! -- Registered Linux User # 379282
