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. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ossec-list" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
