On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Janelle <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Being somewhat new to OSSEC (about 8 months now), one feature I used a lot
> was the ability to silence a noisy rule. A typical example is 1002, which in
> some environments can be very noisy. The method I read about was to
> duplicate the rule in local_rules.xml but change the level to "0". This has
> worked fine with dozens of rules that were false positives in the past all

That's a bad way to do it. I generally create a new rule, <if_sid> the
old rule, and make sure the new rule is a low level.

> the way thru v 2.7.  Now, however, with 2.7.1 I keep getting duplicate rule
> errors and ossec fails to start. Even if I add overwrite="yes" to the rule
> (which I did not have to do before just to change the level).
>

This is working fine for me. Are you using the beta tarball or source
direct from the repo?

> Am I missing something? Is there a new way to disable a false positive that
> I can't find?  I have tried all possible combinations, but my 2.7 config to
> 2.7.1 simply fails on the duplicates. For now I have rolled back to 2.7
> until I can understand how this feature is meant to work and the purpose. I
> could not find much in the release notes on any configuration options for
> the dups.
>
> Help?
>
> ~J
>
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