thanks for all your answers and explanations.

as mentioned before, i'm not judging....I was just curious and thought it 
would help me understand ossec better ;)

Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014 21:38:27 UTC+1 schrieb Michael Starks:
>
> On 2014-12-02 13:46, theresa mic-snare wrote: 
> > hello community, 
> > 
> > out of curiosity, i was wondering, is there any reason why ossec 
> > installs everything in /var/ossec? 
> > why not the usual directories /opt/ and /etc ? 
> > is there any specific reason to this? 
> > 
> > no judging, just wondering ;-) 
> > 
> > i'm writing a bachelor thesis on OSSEC, so this might be a question 
> > that my professor will ask me.... 
>
> As Rick mentioned, it's because of the chroot. Why is it /var/ossec 
> instead of something like /opt? I don't know. Maybe it's because logs 
> are usually in /var and that's where Daniel C liked it. 
>

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