It tries to make a backup of the rules, but if the file is already there, it doesn't overwrite it (just affect upgrades). We will fix it for the next version (backup dir name will be based on the date too). Thanks for pointing it out. -- Daniel B. Cid dcid ( at ) ossec.net On 7/25/06, Forrest Aldrich <forrie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The installation generates this error:
OSSEC HIDS v0.9 Stopped
mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/ossec/rules/rules-backup': File
exists
Which isn't a problem, but maybe not what was intended? ie: backup and
rotation of previous backups (or whatever the local policy happens to be).
Forrest