[Ossec-list] FIFO files and Agent/Server updates

[daniel.cid at gmail.com (Daniel Cid)]

Hi Fred,

What are the names used on your apache logs? Ossec supports the specification
of dates in the localfile option.

For example, if you log is /var/log/www/apache_year_month_day.log
(for today being /var/log/www/apache_2006_May_22.log), the localfile
option would be:

<localfile>/var/log/www/apache_%y_%m_%d.log</localfile>

For other options, look at the strftime manual:
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man3/strftime.3.html

Hope it helps. If not, we will need to do some changes to support
FIFO...

Thanks,

--
Daniel B. Cid
dcid @ ( at ) ossec.net

On 5/23/06, Fred <fcr-mailings at nerim.net> wrote:
>
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> I would have a question on OSSEC.
>
> 1) First is that I have a problem with Apache logs. As we use "logrotate"
> for rotation, log files names are always different, including the current
> one. A solution would be to use a FIFO file: Apache logs would be copied in
> FIFO files.
> So my questions are:
>
>     - can OSSEC Agent may read FIFO files (localfile directive) ?
>     - are there any risks that Apache may block in case of problem with FIFO
> ?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Regards,
>
> Fred
>
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