Hello,

We have some questions regarding analysing log files with OSSEC referring 
to the log file requirements in PCI-DSS 10.5.5.

PCI DSS 10.5.5.:
*Use file-integrity monitoring or change-detection software on logs to 
ensure that existing log data cannot be changed without generating alerts 
(although new data being added should not cause an alert).*

To cover this issue we wanted to enable real-time monitoring on our log 
file directories. Unfortunately we are getting this error:
Ignoring flag for real time monitoring on directory: '/data/'

Our servers are based on Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04 and 11.10, all x64 systems. We 
are using OSSEC 2.5 for clients and server. I know, that for real-time 
monitoring the tool inotify-tools must be installed, but unfortunately this 
didn’t resolve the issue.
Do you have any suggestions have we can make the real-time monitoring of 
growing log files working correctly?

Thank you very much in advantage

Regards.

Andreas Lang

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