Argus CLI requesting to write pid file

[Robin Gruyters]

Ok, thanks for the info.

Regards,

Robin Gruyters
Network and Security Engineer
Yirdis B.V.
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Quoting carter at qosient.com:

> Hey Robin,
> There is another suggestion that I forgot to mention.  On most   
> systems, I have the /etc/argus.conf file ownership as root, and I   
> set the permissions to 400l, so users can't read the file.  This   
> means that in your example, you won't collide with the system argus,  
>  because you won't read the system /etc/argus.conf file.  Argus   
> supports a ARGUSPATH environment variable, so you can have, as an   
> example, a private argus.conf in your home directory if you do this   
> a lot.
>
> Carter.
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>
> Carter Bullard
> QoSient LLC
> 150 E. 57th Street Suite 12D
> New York, New York 10022
> +1 212 588-9133 Phone
> +1 212 588-9134 Fax
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Gruyters <r.gruyters at yirdis.nl>
> Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 11:34:52
> To:Argus <argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
> Subject: [ARGUS] Argus CLI requesting to write pid file
>
> Hi ya,
>
> On one of our sensors we have a Argus process running in daemon mode.
> When I try to run another process with no purposes to run it in daemon
> mode (just to create a temp. argus file from a tcpdump logfile), it
> won't start.
>
> $ argus -X -w /tmp/test.argus -r tcpdump.log.1165273201
> argus[4189]: daemon cannot create new pid file
> $
>
> Altough I use the option -X (=Clean existing argus configuration), it
> still won't start.
>
> Is it possible to include the option (or maybe as default) not to
> write a pid file when not starting in daemon mode?
>
> Regards,
>
> Robin Gruyters
> Network and Security Engineer
> Yirdis B.V.
> I: http://yirdis.com
> P: +31 (0)36 5300394
> F: +31 (0)36 5489119
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