Hello,
I'm seeing this behavior but its repeatable by this 1 host I have. It is 
running Redhat 5.8.
2013/09/25 14:35:49 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan 
(forwarding database).
2013/09/25 14:35:49 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck database 
(pre-scan).
2013/09/25 15:03:36 ossec-syscheckd: socketerr (not available).
2013/09/25 15:03:36 ossec-syscheckd(1224): ERROR: Error sending message to 
queue.

Any ideas? I've reinstalled ossec 2.7 from scratch but same error each time.

On Monday, June 25, 2012 7:30:09 AM UTC-7, Oliver wrote:
>
>
>
> Am Freitag, 22. Juni 2012 14:00:36 UTC+2 schrieb dan (ddpbsd):
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:16 AM, Oliver wrote: 
>>
>>> > 
>>>
>> > 
>> > On Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:42:22 PM UTC+2, dan (ddpbsd) wrote: 
>> >> 
>> >> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Oliver  wrote: 
>> >> > Hi folks, 
>> >> > 
>> >> > I know my problem was posted several times. After reading a lot of 
>> the 
>> >> > old 
>> >> > and also newer posts, I can't see them matching my problem or any 
>> useful 
>> >> > solution. 
>> >> > 
>> >> > My Setup: 
>> >> > OSSEC-Manager & OSSEC-Agent => Version ossec-hids-2.6 
>> >> > 
>> >> > Configuration is pretty much default, I just added a directory to 
>> >> > monitor 
>> >> > for testing realtime monitoring. This was all working fine during 
>> the 
>> >> > night 
>> >> > happened something and now I'm having all two minutes the entry 
>> >> > "ossec-logcollector: socketerr (not available). 
>> >> > 
>> >> > This are the log entries in ossec.log on the agent when the error 
>> first 
>> >> > occurred(RED), the same error for ossec-syscheckd occurred only once 
>> and 
>> >> > never again(BLUE): 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 01:35:36 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 01:35:58 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 01:50:58 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 01:51:20 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:03:17 ossec-logcollector: socketerr (not available). 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:05:27 ossec-logcollector: socketerr (not available). 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:06:20 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:06:20 ossec-syscheckd: socketerr (not available). 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:06:20 ossec-syscheckd(1224): ERROR: Error sending 
>> message 
>> >> > to 
>> >> > queue. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:06:42 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:07:38 ossec-logcollector: socketerr (not available). 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:09:48 ossec-logcollector: socketerr (not available). 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:11:58 ossec-logcollector: socketerr (not available). 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:14:08 ossec-logcollector: socketerr (not available). 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:16:18 ossec-logcollector: socketerr (not available). 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:16:43 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:17:05 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 02:18:28 ossec-logcollector: socketerr (not available). 
>> >> > 
>> >> 
>> >> Are all of the OSSEC processes running? Does it correct itself if you 
>> >> remove your changes to the ossec.conf? Try running the processes in 
>> >> debug mode. 
>> >> 
>> > Yes, I did a $OSSEC/bin/ossec-control status and all the processes were 
>> > running. How do you mean "correct itself"? If I have a typo? yes. 
>> >> 
>>
>> I mean, if you remove your changes and restart the OSSEC processes, 
>> does everything work? 
>>
>
> Didn't try that. Actually not really helpful if I would. Since the error 
> occurred after the rollover of the logs  and after hours I haven't touched 
> the system. 
>
>>
>> >> > In the logfile on the OSSEC-Manager for that period is nothing 
>> >> > mentioned, 
>> >> > the first entry this morning was a restart of the Manager performed 
>> by 
>> >> > myself. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 00:00:36 ossec-monitord: No previous md5 checksum found: 
>> >> > '/logs/archives/2012/Jun/ossec-archive-19.log.sum'. Starting over. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 00:00:36 ossec-monitord: No previous sha1 checksum found: 
>> >> > '/logs/archives/2012/Jun/ossec-archive-19.log.sum'. Starting over. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 00:00:36 ossec-monitord: No previous md5 checksum found: 
>> >> > '/logs/alerts/2012/Jun/ossec-alerts-19.log.sum'. Starting over. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 00:00:36 ossec-monitord: No previous sha1 checksum found: 
>> >> > '/logs/alerts/2012/Jun/ossec-alerts-19.log.sum'. Starting over. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 00:00:36 ossec-monitord: No previous md5 checksum found: 
>> >> > '/logs/firewall/2012/Jun/ossec-firewall-19.log.sum'. Starting over. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 00:00:36 ossec-monitord: No previous sha1 checksum found: 
>> >> > '/logs/firewall/2012/Jun/ossec-firewall-19.log.sum'. Starting over. 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 08:38:27 ossec-monitord(1225): INFO: SIGNAL Received. 
>> Exit 
>> >> > Cleaning... 
>> >> 
>> >> Is this where you killed the processes? 
>> >> Were all ossec processes running? 
>> >> What were the log entries above those errors? 
>> >> How long has the OSSEC server been running OSSEC? 
>> >> 
>> > Yes, this was the stop command on the agent. And the entries above were 
>> the 
>> > errors i received. The server wasn't running for longer than 12hrs 
>> since I'm 
>> > in a testing envirionment and try to understand ossec deeply before I 
>> deploy 
>> > it to my servers. 
>> >> 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 08:38:27 ossec-logcollector(1225): INFO: SIGNAL Received. 
>> >> > Exit 
>> >> > Cleaning... 
>> >> > 2012/06/21 08:38:27 ossec-remoted(1225): INFO: SIGNAL Received. Exit 
>> >> > Cleaning... 
>> >> > 
>> >> > Anyone an idea what could have happened that this error message is 
>> >> > bothering 
>> >> > me? 
>> >> > Also a restart of both the agent and the manager didn't help. 
>> >> > 
>> >> > Thnx, 
>> >> > Oliver 
>> > 
>> > 
>> > The most crzy thing  was, after I posted this yesterday, several hours 
>> the 
>> > error disappeared. However I'm still trying to understand what had 
>> happened, 
>> > since it's unusual for an application to throw an error after hours of 
>> > working and none changing a bit. 
>>
>> Which error? The agent or the server? The server's messages were more 
>> notification than errors, especially seeing how short of a time this 
>> system's been alive. 
>>
>  
> The error was always only on the Agent. I assume the notification on the 
> Manager relate to the day change and therefore a log switchover. And that's 
> actually where I think could be source of my question. Maybe during the 
> rollover something happened and the logcollector failed. Unfortunately I 
> was still not able to create that error manually. Over the past days I also 
> haven't seen it back. 
>

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