Argus 3.0 dies in daemon mode

[Michael Grinnell]

It does seem to be a PID permissions issue.  Commenting out the  
ARGUS_SETUSER_ID and ARGUS_SETGROUP_ID fixes the issue.  Commenting  
out the freopen calls yields:
ArgusError: argus[27674]: 03 Sep 08 23:43:31.530640 daemon cannot  
create pid file

The default PID file location is /var/run, which is chmod 755 and  
chown root:root.

Does it try to create the PID file before set_uid or after?

Michael

On Sep 3, 2008, at 7:31 PM, Tomoyuki Sakurai wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:05:46PM -0400, Carter Bullard wrote:
>>
>> Hey Michael,
>> If you feel adventurous, comment out the two "freopen()" calls in
>> argus.c,
>> recompile, and then see what kind of messages you get.  If you're not
>> that adventurous, take out the GENERATE_PID directive in the  
>> argus.conf
>> file.  You maybe getting a "Can't create PID directory/file" like
>> error message.
>
> I also experienced the same problem before. When argus runs as non- 
> root
> user, it cannnot create pid file. Very likely if you run argus using
> startup script like one provided by OS (I don't know much about  
> CentOS).
>
> Argus should log something like "cannot open file: $!"
> -- 
> Tomoyuki Sakurai