HP-UX Host Intrusion Detection System Version 4.2 Administration Guide

Table F-1 Agent Error Messages (continued)
ActionMeaningError Message
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
Execute the
IDS_importAgentKeys program
to import the certificates for this
agent.
The final stage of the certificate installation
process was not performed.
idsagent: please run the /opt/
ids/bin/
IDS_importAgentKeys script to
complete IDS installation
Contact HP support.An HP-UX HIDS agent subprocess with
PID pid and name pname has failed
unexpectedly, as described in msg.
idsagent: process (PID:pid) pname
died abnormally with error: msg
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up
SIGCHLD signal handler
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up SIGHUP
signal handler
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up signal
handler
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up
SIGSEGV signal handler
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up
SIGTERM signal handler
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up SIGUSR1
signal handler
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred in handling
signals.
idsagent: unable to set up SIGUSR2
signal handler
Contact HP support.The idsagent failed to parse the
surveillance schedule.
idsagent: an error occurred parsing
the schedule
Contact HP support.An internal error occurred while opening
the surveillance schedule file file.
idsagent: cannot get file pointer for
schedule file - file.
Verify that the alert response script
has execute permissions.
The idsagent was unable to execute alert
response script script.
idsagent: could not execute alert
response script script.
204 Error Messages