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

Table F-1 Agent Error Messages (continued)
ActionMeaningError Message
Check that the directory exists,
that it is owned by user:group
ids:ids; that it has 700
permissions, and that the /var
partition has free space
available.
The idsagent failed to create the
/var/opt/ids/alert.log local
alert log file.
idsagent: alert log creation
failed
Ensure that dir exists, that it is
owned by user:group ids:ids,
and that it is readable and
executable by user ids.
The idsagent failed to change its
current working directory to dir
idsagent: cannot access its base
directory: dir
Verify that the file exists; that it
is owned by user:group
ids:ids; and that it is readable
by user ids.
The idsagent cannot open the
configuration file cfile.
idsagent: cannot open
configuration file cfile
Check accompanying error
messages and correct the
problem.
An error occurred while parsing the
ids.cf configuration file. The SSL
certificates may not have been created
properly, meaning that the
REMOTEHOST parameter may not be
valid in ids.cf.
idsagent: failed to initialize
configuration module
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred while
attempting to reopen error reporting.
The per-process limit on file
descriptors may have been reached.
idsagent: failed to reopen stderr
in append mode
Contact HP support.
The idsagent encountered an error
while attempting to activate a
surveillance group. The surveillance
group may contain detection
templates that are not supported on
this version of the idsagent.
idsagent: failed to start group
Contact HP support.
The idsagent encountered an error
while attempting to deactivate a
surveillance group.
idsagent: failed to stop group
Evaluate the errors in the
/var/opt/ids/error.log
log file. Contact HP support.
A problem occurred during idagent
initialization.
idsagent: idsagent initialization
failed. See /var/opt/ids/error.log
for details. Exiting
Verify that the crontab entry
for user ids exists. Contact HP
support.
The idsagent was unable to
correctly determine which
surveillance group to start or stop.
idsagent: internal error in
handling signature groups
Contact HP support.An HP-UX HIDS subprocess has died
unexpectedly.
idsagent: one of the IDS
processes died abnormally:
halting schedule execution
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