On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 4:26 AM Oliver Wittenburg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> i have a perhaps stupid ossec beginners question.
> My syscheck configuration is:
>
>   <syscheck>
>     <frequency>3600</frequency>
>     <scan_on_start>yes</scan_on_start>
>     <skip_nfs>yes</skip_nfs>
>     <alert_new_files>yes</alert_new_files>
>     <auto_ignore>no</auto_ignore>
>     <directories realtime="no" check_all="yes" 
> report_changes="yes">/boot</directories>
>     <directories realtime="no" check_all="yes" 
> report_changes="yes">/etc</directories>
>     <directories realtime="no" check_all="yes" 
> report_changes="yes">/usr/local/etc</directories>
>     <directories realtime="no" check_all="yes">/bin</directories>
>     <directories realtime="no" check_all="yes">/usr/bin</directories>
>     <directories realtime="no" check_all="yes">/sbin</directories>
>     <directories realtime="no" check_all="yes">/usr/sbin</directories>
>     <directories realtime="no" 
> check_all="yes">/lib,/lib64,/usr/lib,/usr/lib64</directories>
>     <directories realtime="no" check_all="yes">/usr/local/bin</directories>
>     <directories realtime="no" check_all="yes">/usr/local/sbin</directories>
>     <directories realtime="no" check_all="yes">/usr/local/lib</directories>
>     <directories realtime="no" check_all="yes">/usr/local/lib64</directories>
>     <directories realtime="no" check_all="yes">/opt</directories>
>   </syscheck>
>
> The frequency should be 1 hour but when i look at the logfile i see a 
> frequency of 1 hour plus five minutes:
>
> 2019/01/25 01:19:45 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan.
> 2019/01/25 01:20:06 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan.
> 2019/01/25 02:25:06 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan.
> 2019/01/25 02:25:27 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan.
> 2019/01/25 03:30:27 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan.
> 2019/01/25 03:30:49 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan.
> 2019/01/25 04:35:49 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan.
> 2019/01/25 04:36:10 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan.
> 2019/01/25 05:41:10 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Starting syscheck scan.
> 2019/01/25 05:41:32 ossec-syscheckd: INFO: Ending syscheck scan.
>
> No matter which frequency value i am using it is always plus five minutes.
> Enabling/Disabling realtime monitoring has no effect.
>
> Do i miss some settings? Are these 5 minutes intentional?
>

It's not an exact timer. There are a number of sleeps in the code that
might cause this, but I can't think of a specific one off hand.

> Thanks for your help,
>
> Oliver
>
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