Hi,

I am trying to use a symlink for local_rules.xml. Here is what I did

cd /var/ossec/rules
cp local_rules.xml /opt/ossec/rules
mv local_rules.xml local_rules.xml.bak
ln -s /opt/ossec/rules/local_rules.xml local_rules.xml

But I couln't start OSSEC after this change and when I check the log file, 
it indicates that it couldn't read the XML file local_rules.xml.
2016/02/16 14:22:49 ossec-analysisd(1226): ERROR: Error reading XML file 
'/rules/local_rules.xml': XMLERR: File '/rules/local_rules.xml' not found. 
(line 88).
2016/02/16 14:22:49 ossec-analysisd(1220): ERROR: Error loading the rules: 
'local_rules.xml'.
2016/02/16 14:22:52 ossec-syscheckd(1210): ERROR: Queue 
'/var/ossec/queue/ossec/queue' not accessible: 'Connection refused'.
2016/02/16 14:22:52 ossec-rootcheck(1210): ERROR: Queue 
'/var/ossec/queue/ossec/queue' not accessible: 'Connection refused'.
2016/02/16 14:22:58 ossec-logcollector(1210): ERROR: Queue 
'/var/ossec/queue/ossec/queue' not accessible: 'Connection refused'.
2016/02/16 14:22:58 ossec-logcollector(1211): ERROR: Unable to access 
queue: '/var/ossec/queue/ossec/queue'. Giving up..

I checked the user/group and permission of those files, and they seem to be 
identical. So OSSEC won't take symlink for rules XML file?
ll /opt/ossec/rules/local_rules.xml 
-r-xr-x--- 1 root ossec 1551 Oct 12 14:21 /opt/ossec/rules/local_rules.xml*

ll local_rules.xml.bak 
-r-xr-x--- 1 root ossec 1551 Oct 12 14:21 local_rules.xml.bak

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