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hey all, I understand that in mac, the equivalent ...
# macos
t
hey all, I understand that in mac, the equivalent to `ntfs_journal_events`is 
file_events
, correct? wondering why it is that my 
file_events
table appears active, yet with no subscriptions and no events. I've my FIM category defined via config.
s
Do you have 
--enable_file_events=true
in your flag file?
t
yes
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# Server
--tls_server_certs=/var/osquery/certs/cert.pem
--tls_hostname=<http://fleetdm-ui.ouryahoo.com|fleetdm-ui.ouryahoo.com>
--tls_session_reuse=true
--tls_session_timeout=3600
--config_tls_max_attempts=3

# Enrollment
--enroll_secret_path=/var/osquery/secret.txt
--host_identifier=hostname
--enroll_tls_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/enroll

# Configuration
--config_plugin=filesystem
--config_tls_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/config
--config_refresh=300
--config_accelerated_refresh=60
--config_check=false
--config_dump=false
--disable_distributed=false
--distributed_plugin=tls
--distributed_interval=10
--distributed_tls_max_attempts=3
--distributed_tls_read_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/distributed/read
--distributed_tls_write_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/distributed/write

# Logging
--logger_plugin=tls
--logger_tls_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/log
--logger_tls_period=10
--logger_tls_period=10
--logger_tls_compress=false
--logger_tls_max_linesize=1048576
--logger_tls_max_lines=2048
--disable_logging=false
--logger_event_type=true
--logger_snapshot_event_type=true
--logger_min_status=0
--logger_min_stderr=0
--logger_stderr=false
--logger_path=/var/osquery/log
--logger_mode=420
--value_max=512
--buffered_log_max=0

# File carving
--disable_carver=false
--carver_start_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/carve/begin
--carver_continue_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/carve/block
--carver_block_size=2000000

# Extensions control
--disable_extensions=false

# Daemon control/runtime control
--schedule_splay_percent=10
--schedule_max_drift=60
--schedule_default_interval=3600
--schedule_timeout=0
--pack_refresh_interval=3600
--pack_delimiter=/
--disable_watchdog=false
--watchdog_level=0
--watchdog_memory_limit=0
--watchdog_utilization_limit=0
--watchdog_delay=60
--enable_extensions_watchdog=true
--utc=false
--table_delay=0
--hash_cache_max=500
--hash_delay=20
--disable_caching=false
--disable_hash_cache=false
--read_max=52428800
--force=true
--pidfile=/var/osquery/osqueryd.pidfile

# Backing storage control
--database_path=/var/osquery/osquery.db
--database_dump=false

# Events control
--disable_events=false
--disable_endpointsecurity=false
--events_expiry=3600
--events_optimize=true
--events_max=50000
--enable_fsevents=true
--enable_event_tapping=true
--enable_file_events=true

# Audit control
--disable_audit=false
--audit_persist=true
--audit_allow_config=true
--audit_allow_sockets=true
--audit_allow_process_events=true
s
iirc there is no 
--enable_fsevents
flag
also might be worth it to give your terminal full disk access permission on macOS for testing/debugging
t
yeah i didn't see a fsevents flag either. and ack regarding full disk access
do you have 
file_events
working?
with 
file_paths
defined somewhere?
s
Yeah, just tried it, works as expected
Here’s my schedule from the config:
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// Define a schedule of queries:
  "schedule": {
    "file_events": {
      "query": "SELECT * FROM file_events;",
      "removed": false,
      "interval": 2
    }
  },
  "file_paths": {
    "tmp": [
      "/tmp/%%"
    ]
  },
and these options
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"disable_events": "false",
    "enable_file_events": "true"
t
where do you have the booleans set? in your flags file?
reason i ask is because my flags file looks like this:
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# Server
--tls_server_certs=/var/osquery/certs/cert.pem
--tls_hostname=<http://fleetdm-ui.ouryahoo.com|fleetdm-ui.ouryahoo.com>
--tls_session_reuse=true
--tls_session_timeout=3600
--config_tls_max_attempts=3

# Enrollment
--enroll_secret_path=/var/osquery/secret.txt
--host_identifier=hostname
--enroll_tls_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/enroll

# Configuration
--config_plugin=filesystem
--config_tls_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/config
--config_refresh=300
--config_accelerated_refresh=60
--config_check=false
--config_dump=false
--disable_distributed=false
--distributed_plugin=tls
--distributed_interval=10
--distributed_tls_max_attempts=3
--distributed_tls_read_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/distributed/read
--distributed_tls_write_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/distributed/write

# Logging
--logger_plugin=tls
--logger_tls_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/log
--logger_tls_period=10
--logger_tls_period=10
--logger_tls_compress=false
--logger_tls_max_linesize=1048576
--logger_tls_max_lines=2048
--disable_logging=false
--logger_event_type=true
--logger_snapshot_event_type=true
--logger_min_status=0
--logger_min_stderr=0
--logger_stderr=false
--logger_path=/var/osquery/log
--logger_mode=420
--value_max=512
--buffered_log_max=0

# File carving
--disable_carver=false
--carver_start_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/carve/begin
--carver_continue_endpoint=/api/v1/osquery/carve/block
--carver_block_size=2000000

# Extensions control
--disable_extensions=false

# Daemon control/runtime control
--schedule_splay_percent=10
--schedule_max_drift=60
--schedule_default_interval=3600
--schedule_timeout=0
--pack_refresh_interval=3600
--pack_delimiter=/
--disable_watchdog=false
--watchdog_level=0
--watchdog_memory_limit=0
--watchdog_utilization_limit=0
--watchdog_delay=60
--enable_extensions_watchdog=true
--utc=false
--table_delay=0
--hash_cache_max=500
--hash_delay=20
--disable_caching=false
--disable_hash_cache=false
--read_max=52428800
--force=true
--pidfile=/var/osquery/osqueryd.pidfile

# Backing storage control
--database_path=/var/osquery/osquery.db
--database_dump=false

# Events control
--disable_events=false
--disable_endpointsecurity=false
--events_expiry=3600
--events_optimize=true
--events_max=50000
--enable_fsevents=true
--enable_event_tapping=true
--enable_file_events=true

# Audit control
--disable_audit=false
--audit_persist=true
--audit_allow_config=true
--audit_allow_sockets=true
--audit_allow_process_events=true
i wonder if my format 
--<flag>=<boolean>
is somehow not working, since it looks like yours is in the format 
"<flag>":"<boolean>"
s
Those are set inside the config file. I was wondering, maybe the remote config is overriding your?
I would try to test this first with less flags and no remote config
t
okay thanks Stefano
oh, but i thought 
--config_plugin=filesystem
would disable remote config?
s
you’re right, I lost myself in the list ahah. I would still try with with less flags, there might be some adverse interaction I’m not seeing
t
thats what i'm thinking too. If i started with a blank osquery.flags file, are there any flags that i should include? Do you have a "barebones" osquery flags file?
also, when you said that
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"disable_events": "false",
    "enable_file_events": "true"
would go in the config file, where in config would they go? options?
s
I think it should be just a matter of starting osqueryi with 
--enable_file_events=true --disable_events=false --verbose
, and then provide the file paths
t
okay
s
I’ve used verbose to double check that nothing fishy is going on
and yes you could also put them in the config under the “options” key. When you do 
osqueryi --help
, all the flags under “osquery configurations options” can go in the “options” key of the config file. The idea is that those options can be enable or disabled at runtime. Admittedly though that list isn’t always reflecting reality, there a couple of quirks around event publishers if I recall right, where you can’t always disable them to then re-enable them at runtime.
So it’s fine for a test but I would suggest against it
https://github.com/osquery/osquery/issues/6533 this might also be of interest.. and yeah it fell a bit behind.
t
interesting. I wonder if this is somehow related to another issue i'm having, where i cannot seem to enable logging. 
disable_logging
default boolean is false, yet without any configs whatsoever, it is set to true.
that output was from
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osquery> select * from osquery_flags;
s
What about 
config_path
in that table? Have you checked that you don’t have a config file there which sets different options?
t
my osquery.conf is basically just a big file_paths config.
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{
  "options": {
    "events_expiry": "60",
    "config_refresh": "600",
    "host_identifier": "instance",
    "distributed_interval": 60
  },
  "decorators": {
    "load": [
      "SELECT COALESCE((select instance_id FROM ec2_instance_metadata), hostname) as hostname FROM system_info;"
    ]
  },
  "overrides": {
    "platforms": {
      "windows": {
        "options": {
          "events_expiry": "60",
          "config_refresh": "600",
          "host_identifier": "instance",
          "distributed_interval": "60"
        },
        "decorators": {
          "load": [
            "SELECT COALESCE((select instance_id FROM ec2_instance_metadata), hostname) as hostname FROM system_info;"
          ]
        },
        "file_paths": {
          "users": [
            "C:\\users\\AppData\\Roaming\\%",
            "C:\\users\\AppData\\Local\\%",
            "C:\\users\\AppData\\Local\\temp\\%",
            "C:\\users\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\StartMenu\\Programs\\Startup\\%",
            "C:\\users\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\%",
            "C:\\Users\\Default\\%"
          ],
          "Windows": [
            "C:\\Windows\\temp\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\system32\\Drivers\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\Drivers\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\system32\\GroupPolicy\\Machine\\Scripts\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\system32\\GroupPolicy\\User\\Scripts\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\system32\\Wbem\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\Wbem\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\WindowsPowerShell\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\Tasks\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\system32\\Tasks\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\AppPatch\\Custom\\%"
          ],
          "ProgramData": [
            "C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\%",
            "C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu\\Programs\\%"
          ]
        },
        "exclude_paths": {
          "windows": [
            "C:\\Windows\\system32\\DriverStore\\Temp\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\system32\\wbem\\Performance\\%",
            "C:\\$WINDOWS.~BT\\Sources\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\Installer\\%",
            "C:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks\\Adobe Acrobat Update Task%",
            "C:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks\\Adobe Flash Player Updater%",
            "C:\\Windows\\System32\\Tasks\\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\\SvcRestartTask\\%"
          ]
        }
      },
      "linux": {
        "options": {
          "events_expiry": "60",
          "config_refresh": "600",
          "host_identifier": "instance",
          "distributed_interval": "60"
        },
        "decorators": {
          "load": [
            "SELECT COALESCE((select instance_id FROM ec2_instance_metadata), hostname) as hostname FROM system_info;"
          ]
        },
        "file_paths": {
          "etc": [
            "/etc/group",
            "/etc/passwd",
            "/etc/shadow",
            "/etc/services",
            "/etc/sudoers",
            "/etc/ld.so.preload",
            "/etc/ld.so.conf",
            "/etc/ld.so.conf.d/%%",
            "/etc/pam.d/%%",
            "/etc/resolv.conf",
            "/etc/modules",
            "/etc/hosts",
            "/etc/hostname",
            "/etc/fstab",
            "/etc/rsyslog.conf"
          ],
          "ssh": [
            "/root/.ssh/%%",
            "/home/%/.ssh/%%",
            "/etc/ssh/%%",
            "/var/lib/sia/keys/",
            "/var/lib/sia/certs/"
          ],
          "logs": [
            "/var/log/secure"
          ],
          "docker": [
            "/etc/docker/%%",
            "/etc/default/docker",
            "/etc/docker/daemon.json",
            "/usr/bin/containerd",
            "/usr/sbin/runc",
            "/etc/sysconfig/docker",
            "/usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.service",
            "/usr/lib/systemd/system/docker.socket"
          ],
          "osquery": [
            "/etc/osquery/%%",
            "/usr/share/osquery/packs/%%"
          ],
          "firewalls": [
            "/etc/sysconfig/iptables",
            "/home/y/conf/yakl/%%",
            "/etc/yakl/conf/%%"
          ]
        }
      },
      "darwin": {
        "options": {
          "events_expiry": "60",
          "config_refresh": "600",
          "host_identifier": "instance",
          "distributed_interval": "60"
        },
        "decorators": {
          "load": [
            "SELECT COALESCE((select instance_id FROM ec2_instance_metadata), hostname) as hostname FROM system_info;"
          ]
        },
        "file_paths": {
          "System": [
            "/System/Applications/",
            "/System/Library/"
          ],
          "Users": [
            "/Users/%/"
          ],
          "private": [
            "/private/etc/sudoers",
            "/private/etc/ssh/ssh_known_hosts",
            "/private/etc/bashrc"
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
s
oh right wait, if you’re testing with 
osqueryi
logging is force disabled, together with the watchdog.
I keep forgetting that this was changed: https://github.com/osquery/osquery/pull/6621
t
ahh okay good to know
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