Argus 3.0.8 daemon hangs (init.d/.conf conflict)

[Carter Bullard]

There are multiple ways for linux machines to startup
daemons, some want argus to exit, some don’t, so
its really “ whatever works “, given what strategy you’re
trying to use.

Glad to see that you could get it working.

The message that you got earlier “
>>> ArgusError: 08 Oct 14 15:59:59.547665 argus: ArgusEstablishListen: bind()
>> error

suggests that another argus is running, as something has your argus
port used.  I don’t think it indicates that -dd + the argus.conf
variable doesn’t work.

Carter


On Oct 8, 2014, at 5:49 PM, <7j21g9+ouka5g at guerrillamail.com> <7j21g9+ouka5g at guerrillamail.com> wrote:

> Hi Carter.
> 
> If I change the line to uncommented ARGUS_DAEMON=no, then argus will daemonize OK when invoked through init.
> 
> Via the init scripts, it is recommended to set any options with DAEMON_ARGS or should all configuration be done in the argus.conf file? My intention was to deploy our "standard" argus.conf with global options to all sensors, and set the specific interfaces and per-system options through the init script. But perhaps it is better done all through the config file...
> 
> Cheers.
> Nick
> 
> 
> On 2014-10-08 21:28:32 carter at qosient.com wrote:
>> Hey Nick,
>> What happens if you you just change the ARGUS_DAEMON=no ???
>> 
>> Carter
>> 
>> On Oct 8, 2014, at 5:21 PM, <7j21g9+ouka5g at guerrillamail.com>
>> <7j21g9+ouka5g at guerrillamail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have identified an issue resulting in the hanging of the Argus daemon
>> when started with init scripts (tested here on Debian 7.6) and if the
>> /etc/argus.conf file has uncommented and set:
>>> 
>>> ARGUS_DAEMON=yes
>>> 
>>> and the /etc/init.d/argus script is enabled, then when the system boots
>> it will hang before it gets to login (can't even ^C out of it). It is then
>> necessary to reboot into single user mode (or enter via SSH) to stop and
>> disable the Argus service.
>>> 
>>> By comparison, passing the -d flag twice on a command line invocation of
>> argus results in:
>>> 
>>> ArgusError: 08 Oct 14 15:59:59.547665 argus: ArgusEstablishListen: bind()
>> error
>>> 
>>> ...and then dumps me back to the shell, so it would appear that Argus is
>> struggling when it parses argus.conf with ARGUS_DAEMON=yes and has -d
>> passed in via the init script.
> 
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