On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:07 AM, bujanga <buja...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am running a legacy FreeBSD 7.4 system and had some minor issues > installing OSSEC as an agent. > > 1. It says I must be user root to install. > I su to the user toor and save my root for console work only. Since I > am remote, this caused a minor stumble. The install script should > check the UID rather than the user name. > From about line 930 of v2.6 and line 975 of v2.7 > # Must be root > if [ ! "X$ME" = "Xroot" ]; then > catError "0x2-beroot"; > fi > As a quick fix, I simply changed "Xroot" to "Xtoor". >
Meh, seems like an admin issue. Shouldn't have been too hard to include a patch with a real fix though. > 2. Unable to install version 2.7. I did not troubleshoot this but > immediately tried to install 2.6 instead. Version 2.6 installed > without issue. Why bother sending the email if you aren't going to give us a hint?
