When running `/usr/local/ossec-hids/bin/config/ossec-conf` to create ossec.conf, there's an error message about sed and ossec.conf is created with empty tags. Applying the following diff solves the problem: 25c25 < sed '/^\s*$/d' --- > sed '/^ *$/d'
This is duplicate of bug #256545.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 256545 ***