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karthik s

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Dec 11, 2019, 6:14:39 AM12/11/19
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Hello Team,

When I try to run below command, i'm getting this error. Could someone help me ASAP.

ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:~$ cat ossec-hids-2.8.3.tar.gz.sha256
SHA256 (ossec-hids-2.8.3.tar.gz) = 917989e23330d18b0d900e8722392cdbe4f17364a547508742c0fd005a1df7dd
ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:~$ sha256sum -c  ossec-hids-2.8.3.tar.gz.sha256 ossec-hids-2.8.3.tar.gz
ossec-hids-2.8.3.tar.gz: OK
sha256sum: ossec-hids-2.8.3.tar.gz: no properly formatted SHA256 checksum lines found
ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:~$

Thanks and Regards,
Karthik

Natassia S

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Dec 11, 2019, 10:32:48 AM12/11/19
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Correction, I just noticed that you used the -c option and got the same error as you did.  I normally run sha256sum without any flags.

Natassia

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 7:27 AM Natassia S <ste...@uw.edu> wrote:
I'm not sure why you got the error.  I ran the sha256sum on the same file on a CentOS 8 box, got the same checksum and no errors.  I'm guessing that you already tried downloading a fresh copy?

Natassia

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Natassia S

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Dec 11, 2019, 10:33:06 AM12/11/19
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I'm not sure why you got the error.  I ran the sha256sum on the same file on a CentOS 8 box, got the same checksum and no errors.  I'm guessing that you already tried downloading a fresh copy?

Natassia

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Natassia S

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Sorry that this is coming in bits and pieces.  It looks to me that -c option is used when verifying the checksum file.

[ Downloads]$ sha256sum -c  ossec-hids-2.8.3.tar.gz.sha256 
ossec-hids-2.8.3.tar.gz: OK

I don't think that the actual program tar file contains a checksum (hence the error) and you use the command without any options to calculate a sum that you compare to the checksum file that you download separately.

[ Downloads]$ sha256sum ossec-hids-2.8.3.tar.gz
917989e23330d18b0d900e8722392cdbe4f17364a547508742c0fd005a1df7dd  ossec-hids-2.8.3.tar.gz

Natassia

Schultheis Burkhard

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Some weeks ago I've installed Ossec on on three servers. One is running
CentOS 6.10, the others Opensuse 15.1. The CentOS installation behaves
as expected, but the opensuse installations behave very different,
although the configurations are as close as possible.

From the CentOS server we get emails as expected, from the opensuse
servers not (other programs send us emails as expected from all
servers). The opensuse servers write tons of ossec logs, because it's in
a start-terminate loop. Excerpt:

2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-testrule: INFO: Reading local decoder file.
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-testrule: INFO: Started (pid: 28499).
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-maild: INFO: Started (pid: 28516).
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-execd: INFO: Started (pid: 28520).
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading local decoder file.
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'rules_config.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'pam_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'sshd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'telnetd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'syslog_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'arpwatch_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'symantec-av_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'symantec-ws_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'pix_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'named_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'smbd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'vsftpd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'pure-ftpd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'proftpd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'ms_ftpd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'ftpd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'hordeimp_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'roundcube_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'wordpress_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'cimserver_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'vpopmail_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'vmpop3d_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'courier_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'web_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'web_appsec_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'apache_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'nginx_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'php_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'mysql_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'postgresql_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'ids_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'squid_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'firewall_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'apparmor_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'cisco-ios_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'netscreenfw_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'sonicwall_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'postfix_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'sendmail_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'imapd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'mailscanner_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'dovecot_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'ms-exchange_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'racoon_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'vpn_concentrator_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'spamd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'msauth_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'mcafee_av_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'trend-osce_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'ms-se_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'zeus_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'solaris_bsm_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'vmware_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'ms_dhcp_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'asterisk_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'ossec_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'attack_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'openbsd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'clam_av_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'dropbear_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'sysmon_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'opensmtpd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'exim_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'openbsd-dhcpd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'dnsmasq_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'nsd_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Reading rules file:
'local_rules.xml'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Total rules enabled: '1603'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file: '/etc/mtab'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file: '/etc/mnttab'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file: '/etc/hosts.deny'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file:
'/etc/mail/statistics'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file: '/etc/random-seed'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file: '/etc/adjtime'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file: '/etc/httpd/logs'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file: '/etc/utmpx'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file: '/etc/wtmpx'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file: '/etc/cups/certs'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file: '/etc/dumpdates'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file:
'/etc/svc/volatile'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file:
'C:\WINDOWS/System32/LogFiles'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file: 'C:\WINDOWS/Debug'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file:
'C:\WINDOWS/WindowsUpdate.log'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file:
'C:\WINDOWS/iis6.log'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file:
'C:\WINDOWS/system32/wbem/Logs'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file:
'C:\WINDOWS/system32/wbem/Repository'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file:
'C:\WINDOWS/Prefetch'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file:
'C:\WINDOWS/PCHEALTH/HELPCTR/DataColl'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file:
'C:\WINDOWS/SoftwareDistribution'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file: 'C:\WINDOWS/Temp'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file:
'C:\WINDOWS/system32/config'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file:
'C:\WINDOWS/system32/spool'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Ignoring file:
'C:\WINDOWS/system32/CatRoot'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Allow listing IP: '127.0.0.1'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Allow listing IP: 'xxxx'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Allow listing IP: 'xxxx'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Allow listing IP: 'xxxx'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: 4 IPs in the allow list for
active response.
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Allow listing Hostname: '::1'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Allow listing Hostname:
'localhost.localdomain'
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: 2 Hostname(s) in the allow
list for active response.
2020/01/13 13:45:25 ossec-analysisd: INFO: Started (pid: 28524).
2020/01/13 13:45:26 ossec-monitord: INFO: Started (pid: 28536).
2020/01/13 13:45:28 ossec-monitord(1225): INFO: SIGNAL
[(15)-(Terminated)] Received. Exit Cleaning...
2020/01/13 13:45:28 ossec-logcollector(1225): INFO: SIGNAL
[(15)-(Terminated)] Received. Exit Cleaning...
2020/01/13 13:45:28 ossec-analysisd(1225): INFO: SIGNAL
[(15)-(Terminated)] Received. Exit Cleaning...
2020/01/13 13:45:28 ossec-maild(1225): INFO: SIGNAL [(15)-(Terminated)]
Received. Exit Cleaning...
2020/01/13 13:45:28 ossec-execd(1314): INFO: Shutdown received. Deleting
responses.
2020/01/13 13:45:28 ossec-execd(1225): INFO: SIGNAL [(15)-(Terminated)]
Received. Exit Cleaning...

Where should I look what could terminate the process?

Best regards
Burkhard

dan (ddp)

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On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 9:04 AM Schultheis Burkhard
<burkhard....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Some weeks ago I've installed Ossec on on three servers. One is running
> CentOS 6.10, the others Opensuse 15.1. The CentOS installation behaves
> as expected, but the opensuse installations behave very different,
> although the configurations are as close as possible.
>
> From the CentOS server we get emails as expected, from the opensuse
> servers not (other programs send us emails as expected from all
> servers). The opensuse servers write tons of ossec logs, because it's in
> a start-terminate loop. Excerpt:
>

How did you install OSSEC (package, source, etc)?
You could check the /var/log/audit/audit.log to see if it mentions
anything about it.
I have an OpenSuse VM where it worked fine, but I installed from
source. I haven't powered it up in a while though.
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Burkhard Schultheis

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Hi,

I installed it. In the meantime I solved the problem with help from
Google:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/200280/systemd-kills-service-immediately-after-start

Thanks for your help!

Best regards from Germany
Burkhard
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