HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System Version 4.1 Administrator's Guide

F Error Messages
This appendix describes errors and messages that may be produced by the Agent and
System Manager programs. This appendix addresses the following topics:
• “Agent Messages” (page 255)
• “System Manager Messages” (page 261)
Agent Messages
This section describes error messages that are displayed on agent systems.
NOTE: These messages are produced by agent processes. If you see a message that
is not described and you cannot resolve the problem, contact HP support.
Table F-1 Agent Error Messages
ActionMeaningError Message
See if the agent is already
running (ps -ef grep
idsagent). If it is, and you
need to restart it, see “Halting
HP-UX HIDS Agents” (page 65)
and “Starting HP-UX HIDS
Agents” (page 61). If the agent
is not running, delete the lock
file and restart the agent.
You attempted to start idsagent and
it is already running. Or idsagent
halted abnormally, leaving the lock
file in place.
idsagent: another idsagent
(PID:pid) process is running.
Or a stale lockfile
/var/opt/ids/idsagent.pid exists.
Remove it and attempt to
restart - exiting
Switch to user ids.
You are currently logged in as
superuser (root). For security
reasons, HP-UX HIDS programs
cannot be run as superuser.
idsagent: agent processes must
NOT be run as root - exiting
This error often occurs if the
IDDS driver in the kernel is not
configured correctly. Run the
IDS_checkInstall script,
contact HP support.
The idsagent encountered an
unexpected error, it halted the
currently active surveillance schedule.
idsagent: a critical error
occurred on the agent; halting
schedule execution
The idsagent refuses to open
the configuration file if it is not
owned by user:group ids:ids,
is not readable by user ids, or
is world-writable.
Security checks on the configuration
file cfile failed.
dsagent: access checking on
configuration file cfile failed
Agent Messages 255