/usr/sbin/argus requested by /etc/init.d/argus-server is missing

[Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf)]

Probably it's a dup of bug #192868 however the files and the release are not the same.

The issue is that the init script in karmic of argus-server sets as the daemon file the file "/usr/sbin/argus" which doesn't exists after argus-server installation.

    root@SNORTIDS:/usr/share/doc/argus-server# grep -C3 ^DAEMON= /etc/init.d/argus-server
    DEFAULTS=/etc/default/argus-server
    LOGFILE=/var/log/argus/argus.log
    CONFFILE=/etc/argus.conf
    DAEMON=/usr/sbin/argus
    NAME=argus
    PIDFILE=/var/run/argus.pid

The init.d script arises an exit 1 error. The exit 1 appears after testing the existence of /usr/sbin/argus file

    root@SNORTIDS:/usr/share/doc/argus-server# bash -x /etc/init.d/argus-server start
    + set -e
    + DEFAULTS=/etc/default/argus-server
    + LOGFILE=/var/log/argus/argus.log
    + CONFFILE=/etc/argus.conf
    + DAEMON=/usr/sbin/argus
    + NAME=argus
    + PIDFILE=/var/run/argus.pid
    + test -f /etc/default/argus-server
    + . /etc/default/argus-server
    ++ STARTUP=boot
    + '[' boot = dialup ']'
    + '[' boot = none ']'
    + '[' '!' -f /etc/argus.conf ']'
    + test -x /usr/sbin/argus
    + exit 1

The right file seems to be /usr/sbin/argus-linux which exists.

Just creating a symlink of that script to the "missing" /usr/bin/argus file (or editing the init.d script to point to the right file) solves the problem:

    root@SNORTIDS:/usr/share/doc/argus-server# ln -s /usr/sbin/argus_linux /usr/sbin/argus
    root@SNORTIDS:/usr/share/doc/argus-server# bash -x /etc/init.d/argus-server start
    + set -e
    + DEFAULTS=/etc/default/argus-server
    + LOGFILE=/var/log/argus/argus.log
    + CONFFILE=/etc/argus.conf
    + DAEMON=/usr/sbin/argus
    + NAME=argus
    + PIDFILE=/var/run/argus.pid
    + test -f /etc/default/argus-server
    + . /etc/default/argus-server
    ++ STARTUP=boot
    + '[' boot = dialup ']'
    + '[' boot = none ']'
    + '[' '!' -f /etc/argus.conf ']'
    + test -x /usr/sbin/argus
    + case "$1" in
    + echo -n 'Starting network auditing daemon: '
    Starting network auditing daemon: + testrunning
    + '[' -f /var/run/argus.pid ']'
    + /usr/sbin/argus -w /var/log/argus/argus.log -n /var/run/argus.pid
    argus[28766]: started+ echo 'argus. '

    argus.

I'm running ubuntu karmic

    root@SNORTIDS:/usr/share/doc/argus-server# lsb_release -rd
    Description: Ubuntu 9.10
    Release: 9.10

root@SNORTIDS:/usr/share/doc/argus-server# LC_ALL=C apt-cache policy argus-server
argus-server:
  Installed: 1:2.0.6.fixes.1-16
  Candidate: 1:2.0.6.fixes.1-16
  Version table:
 *** 1:2.0.6.fixes.1-16 0
        500 http://es.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status