how to just install without compiling

[Aaron Bliss]

Hi everyone,
I have several boxes of similar hardware and os. I've complied the
agent on one of the boxes without issues (solaris 10 sparc). Can I
simply to just recursively copy the /var/ossec directory to the other
boxes? I've added the ossec user and group and fixed all necessary
ownership issues to the destination agent box. Is there anything else I
need to do other than the normal agent key import/export? Thanks for
your help.

Aaron

[Daniel Cid]

Hi Aaron,

The easiest way is to just get the ossec binaries (from /var/ossec/bin) and
move them to the ossec package under the bin directory.

After that, set the etc/preloaded-vars.conf file for the binary install:

USER_BINARYINSTALL="y"

With that, you can just run the ./install.sh on any box and it will install
everything properly with the pre-compiled binaries.

Hope it helps.

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Daniel B. Cid
dcid ( at ) ossec.net

[Aaron Bliss]

Daniel,
It works perfectly just the way you said. Should I add this to the wiki?

Aaron

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Aaron Bliss
Systems Administrator
SUNY Brockport
(585) 395-2417