On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Tahir Hafiz <[email protected]> wrote: > In the OSSEC configuration file (ossec.conf) we have set syscheck frequency > for 300 seconds: > > <frequency>300</frequency>` > > However it appears that this is not honoured by syscheck and instead it does > the syscheck every 10 minutes. > > 2016/07/05 16:06:31 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan. > 2016/07/05 16:07:09 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan. > 2016/07/05 16:17:09 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan. > 2016/07/05 16:17:48 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan. > > > Why is this? Sleep has been set to 0 in the internal_options.conf as well. >
The frequency isn't exact, it's more of a minimum. 10 minutes is still a very short time. > Cheers > > -- > > --- > 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. -- --- 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.
