On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Bill Price <[email protected]> wrote:
> No.  I get:  ossec-testrule(1220): ERROR: Error loading the rules:
> 'rules_config.xml'
>

Do you have:
<rules>
<include>rules_config.xml</include>
 in your ossec.conf?

Or is that file missing from /var/ossec/rules?

> On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 2:49:38 PM UTC-5, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Bill Price <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I initially made changes to local_rules.xml and local_decoder.xml. I got
>> > the
>> > same error.    I backed those files out.  I tried moving all the rule
>> > files
>> > out of the rule directory but syslog_rules, but got the same error.
>> > The
>> > only change I've made was adding a "rule dir" specification to
>> > ossec.conf.
>> > I was told that the installation was fresh, but there could be a chance
>> > someone else has changed something
>> >
>>
>> If you remove this "rule dir specification" thing, does it work?
>>
>> > On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 2:32:42 PM UTC-5, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Bill Price <[email protected]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > I ran ossec-logtest
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> You made no changes to the OSSEC rules or decoders? Very strange, I
>> >> haven't seen any other reports of this. What version of OSSEC did you
>> >> install? Is this a local installation or server?
>> >>
>> >> I'll start looking through the code to see where that error could have
>> >> come from.
>> >>
>> >> > On Tuesday, December 2, 2014 2:24:06 PM UTC-5, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Bill Price <[email protected]>
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> > I was asked to setup decoders and rules on a client.  When I run
>> >> >> > ossec-test,
>> >> >> > I get the following error message:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >  rules_list: Category '1' not found. Invalid 'category'
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > All the Categories in the rules xml are the standard one (ids,
>> >> >> > syslog,
>> >> >> > firewall, web-log, squid, ossec or windows)
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Any ideas on what is wrong?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> What did you do?
>> >> >>
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