Thanks to Steve for reporting this. 
Yes,  the rule bro-ids.xml was removed in 2.8 since it did not work anyway.
Please delete the line in your /var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf to avoid the error 
message. 

On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 9:57:04 AM UTC-7, Steven Stern wrote:
>
> At the end of ./install.sh 
>
> OSSEC HIDS v2.7.1 Stopped 
> Starting OSSEC HIDS v2.8 (by Trend Micro Inc.)... 
> ossec-analysisd: Configuration error. Exiting. 
>
>  - Configuration finished properly. 
>
> service ossec start 
> Starting OSSEC:                                            [FAILED] 
>
> from ossec.log 
>
> 2014/06/04 11:48:27 ossec-execd(1314): INFO: Shutdown received. Deleting 
> responses. 
> 2014/06/04 11:48:27 ossec-execd(1225): INFO: SIGNAL Received. Exit 
> Cleaning... 
> 2014/06/04 11:48:28 ossec-testrule: INFO: Reading local decoder file. 
> 2014/06/04 11:48:28 ossec-analysisd: Invalid decoder name: 'bro-ids'. 
> 2014/06/04 11:48:28 ossec-testrule(1220): ERROR: Error loading the 
> rules: 'bro-ids_rules.xml'. 
> 2014/06/04 11:49:32 ossec-testrule: INFO: Reading local decoder file. 
> 2014/06/04 11:49:32 ossec-analysisd: Invalid decoder name: 'bro-ids'. 
> 2014/06/04 11:49:32 ossec-testrule(1220): ERROR: Error loading the 
> rules: 'bro-ids_rules.xml'. 
>
> Contents of ossec-init.conf: 
>
> DIRECTORY="/var/ossec" 
> VERSION="v2.8" 
> DATE="Wed Jun  4 11:48:28 CDT 2014" 
> TYPE="local" 
>
> Per another email message, deleting the line in 
> /var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf that includes the bro-ids.xml file fixed things. 
>
>
> -- 
> -- Steve 
>

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