Michael,

Were you able to restart OSSEC after editing syslog_rules.xml? did it not 
fail throwing the below message:
"OSSEC analysisd: Testing rules failed. Configuration error. Exiting."

- Saurabh

On Monday, July 7, 2014 at 8:53:24 PM UTC+5:30, Michael Starks wrote:
>
> On 2014-07-07 10:07, Randy Dover wrote: 
> > How should I comment it out? 
> > I edited syslog_rules.xml (in 
> > The way I edited it was: 
> > # <rule id='1003'... 
> > #  <description... 
> > # </rule> 
> > 
> > So, in essence, I just put a "#" in front of each of the lines. 
> > 
> > That didn't work. I'm still getting the emails. And getting a lot of 
> > them. 
>
> XML comments are like this: <!--  stuff here -->. So, your rule should 
> look like this: 
>
> <!-- rule id="1003" level="13" maxsize="304900"> 
>      <description>Non standard syslog message (size too 
> large).</description> 
>    </rule --> 
>
> Keep in mind that this is an exceptional case. Normally, you wouldn't 
> want to modify rules in any place other than local_rules.xml, as they 
> will be overwritten on upgrades. 
>
>
>

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