On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Ford,Luckie J <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry.... not sure I understand your statement " So for 
> /opt/ossec/queue/ossec to exist you'd need /opt/ossec/opt/ossec/queue/ossec ".
>

The process has been chrooted to /opt/ossec.
The process is looking for /queue/ossec, because /opt/ossec is the new
/ for that process. If the process thought it was looking for
/opt/ossec/queue/ossec, it would actually be looking for
/opt/ossec/opt/ossec/queue/ossec.

chroot, it's like a wacky drug.

> Because of requirements at our facility, ossec is installed in /opt/ossec 
> instead of /var/ossec.  When doing a :
>
> ossec-remoted -df
>
> The results are:
>
> 2013/09/30 11:08:46 ossec-remoted: DEBUG: Starting ...
> 2013/09/30 11:08:46 ossec-remoted: INFO: Started (pid: 12020).
> [root@dcprpoemprddb1 logs]# 2013/09/30 11:08:46 ossec-remoted: DEBUG: Forking 
> remoted: '0'.
> 2013/09/30 11:08:46 ossec-remoted: INFO: Started (pid: 12021).
> 2013/09/30 11:08:46 ossec-remoted: DEBUG: Running manager_init
> 2013/09/30 11:08:49 ossec-remoted(1210): ERROR: Queue '/queue/ossec/queue' 
> not accessible: 'Connection refused'.
> 2013/09/30 11:08:49 ossec-remoted(1211): ERROR: Unable to access queue: 
> '/queue/ossec/queue'. Giving up..
>
> Are the paths shown in the last two lines of that message accurate based on 
> my install directory of /opt/ossec.  If so, what should the permissions be 
> and any other thoughts on why I might be getting those errors?  If not, what 
> would cause it to use that path and where/how do I correct it?
>

Read up on chroot. I gave you the permissions already. Are all of the
other necessary processes running?

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