Error Starting Argus Daemon

[Carter Bullard]

Hey  Neal,
Comment out the ARGUS_SETUSER_ID and ARGUS_SETGROUP_ID statements,
to see if you get past the error.   If you do get past, then I can start looking at what
is the problem with the UID logic.

Carter


On Jan 22, 2013, at 11:46 AM, "Welland, Neal" <N.Welland at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I have a user account “argus:other” and have set the following options in argus.conf:
>  
> ARGUS_ACCESS_PORT=561
> ARGUS_CAPTURE_DATA_LEN=32
> ARGUS_DAEMON=yes
> ARGUS_DEBUG_LEVEL=0
> ARGUS_FLOW_KEY="CLASSIC_5_TUPLE"
> ARGUS_FLOW_STATUS_INTERVAL=5
> ARGUS_FLOW_TYPE="Bidirectional"
> ARGUS_GENERATE_APPBYTE_METRIC=yes
> ARGUS_GENERATE_BIDIRECTIONAL_TIMESTAMPS=yes
> ARGUS_GENERATE_JITTER_DATA=no
> ARGUS_GENERATE_MAC_DATA=no
> ARGUS_GENERATE_PACKET_SIZE=yes
> ARGUS_GENERATE_RESPONSE_TIME_DATA=no
> ARGUS_GO_PROMISCUOUS=yes
> ARGUS_INTERFACE=nxge0
> ARGUS_MAR_STATUS_INTERVAL=60
> ARGUS_MONITOR_ID=`hostname`
> ARGUS_OUTPUT_FILE=/datapool/cachi_int-rz1/tap.argus
> ARGUS_PID_PATH="/var/run"
> ARGUS_SET_PID=yes
> ARGUS_SETGROUP_ID=other
> ARGUS_SETUSER_ID=argus
>  
> I’m using sudo to get the necessary privileges:
>  
> /opt/csw/bin/sudo /usr/local/sbin/argus -F /etc/argus.conf
>  
> Neal.
>  
> From: Carter Bullard [mailto:carter at qosient.com] 
> Sent: 22 January 2013 16:27
> To: Welland, Neal
> Cc: argus-info at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Re: [ARGUS] Error Starting Argus Daemon
>  
> * PGP - S/MIME Signed by an unverified key: 22/01/2013 at 16:27:03
> Are you redefining the UID / GID through the argus.conf ?
> And are you running as root ?
> Carter
>  
>  
> On Jan 22, 2013, at 11:19 AM, "Welland, Neal" <N.Welland at warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi again,
>  
> After successfully getting the argus daemon to compile on Solaris 10, I am now having problems starting it!
>  
> I get the following errors in /var/adm/messages:
>  
> Jan 22 16:09:11 cachi argus[22768]: [ID 324209 daemon.warning] 22 Jan 13 16:09:11.225846 started
> Jan 22 16:09:11 cachi argus[22768]: [ID 991180 daemon.error] 22 Jan 13 16:09:11.231028 ArgusInitOutput() pthread_create error Not owner
> Jan 22 16:09:11 cachi argus[22768]: [ID 218572 daemon.warning] 22 Jan 13 16:09:11.231164 stopped
>  
> Any ideas what ownership it’s failing on?
>  
> Regards,
>  
> --
> Neal Welland, Information Security Analyst. War-CSIIRT
> University of Warwick, IT Services, Coventry CV4 8UW, UK
> E: n.welland at warwick.ac.uk M: 07880 175391
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>  
>  
> * Carter Bullard <carter at qosient.com>
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