On Thursday, 19 February 2015 12:15:31 UTC, dan (ddpbsd) wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:14 AM, CraigL <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Further update, while I haven't seen the usual "File not available 
> error" no 
> > logs have been sent to the central server since after midnight which 
> leads 
> > me to believe that some part of the logrotate process or this patch for 
> > alerts.log may not be quite there. 
> > 
>
> Alerts were being sent successfully before midnight though? 
>

Yep, last log generated and received was 23:56, then nothing until I 
restarted the agent this morning. 

>
> > Is there any diagnostics info I can provide to help fault find this 
> issue? 
> > 
>
> Just keep looking through the source trying to find the issue. 
>

Not my forte I'll admit, but I guess there is always a first time for 
everything to try and learn!
 

>
> > Thanks, 
> > 
> > Craig 
> > 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, 18 February 2015 21:48:06 UTC, CraigL wrote: 
> >> 
> >> Applied the patch, upgraded the install on the hybrid box and it is 
> >> behaving well so far, certainly the longest it has done all day, most 
> of the 
> >> time it would have crashed within minutes, 10 - 20 minutes maximum. 
> >> 
> >> C 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Wednesday, 18 February 2015 20:19:46 UTC, CraigL wrote: 
> >>> 
> >>> I have seen this issue today while testing a tiered infrastructure on 
> >>> 2.8.1, will upgrading the existing installation apply the patch or 
> will I 
> >>> need to reinstall? 
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks, 
> >>> 
> >>> Craig 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> On Thursday, 12 February 2015 12:56:01 UTC, dan (ddpbsd) wrote: 
> >>>> 
> >>>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:49 AM, dan (ddp) <[email protected]> wrote: 
> >>>> > On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 11:29 PM, John Luko <[email protected]> 
> wrote: 
> >>>> >> Ok.  I did a local setup and after sometime I was finally able to 
> >>>> >> recreate 
> >>>> >> the issue.  Setup was as follows: 
> >>>> >> 
> >>>> >> server1 (server mode) --> server 2 (hybrid mode) ---> computer1 
> >>>> >> (agent only) 
> >>>> >> 
> >>>> >> I made a series of changes to files on computer1 and it reported 
> >>>> >> those 
> >>>> >> changes to server 2, which were reflected on server 1 (it did not 
> >>>> >> show what 
> >>>> >> the hashes were).  I changed the file a bunch of times for a few 
> >>>> >> minutes and 
> >>>> >> everything was reporting just fine.  It wasn't until I performed 
> >>>> >> several 
> >>>> >> sudo -i commands on server2 that it reported the following: 
> >>>> >> 
> >>>> >> 2015/02/04 23:16:58 ossec-logcollector(1904): INFO: File not 
> >>>> >> available, 
> >>>> >> ignoring it: '/var/ossec/logs/alerts/alerts.log'. 
> >>>> >> 
> >>>> >> It stayed connected for almost 20 minutes before the above 
> happened, 
> >>>> >> but in 
> >>>> >> production environments I am getting around 4 minutes before it 
> >>>> >> starts 
> >>>> >> ignoring that alerts.log. 
> >>>> >> 
> >>>> >> 2015/02/04 22:53:21 ossec-agentd(4102): INFO: Connected to the 
> server 
> >>>> >> (192.168.1.2:1514) 
> >>>> >> 
> >>>> >> So, at least for now, it appears that it is related to the sudo 
> >>>> >> commands 
> >>>> >> being run.  Anything else I can provide to help with 
> troubleshooting? 
> >>>> >> Also, 
> >>>> >> is it possible for the hashes to be sent as well? 
> >>>> >> 
> >>>> > 
> >>>> > I've setup test environments, I need help tracking down the bug in 
> the 
> >>>> > code. 
> >>>> > 
> >>>> 
> >>>> I have a potential fix here: 
> >>>> https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/issues/442 
> >>>> It needs some pretty heavy testing though. 
> > 
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