Re: rules.d on RHEL6

[Simon Sekidde <ssekidde@redhat.com>]

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> From: "warron.french" <warron.french@gmail.com>
> To: linux-audit@redhat.com
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2017 10:18:55 AM
> Subject: rules.d on RHEL6
> 
> It appears that this directory is not used at all on RHEL6.
> 
> I know I have mentioned this before; but it's true. If I move my copy of
> audit.rules from /etc/audit into the subdirectory rules.d and restart audit;
> the audit.rules file is not recopied/regenerated or whatever by the auditd.
> 
> This behavior is different from RHEL7; where if you delete the
> /etc/audit/audit.rules file or move it to /etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules;
> the auditd functions as I expect.
> 
> 
> Can someone please correct my understanding? Is the /etc/audit/rules.d
> directory not supposed to be usable in RHEL6; but is in RHEL7?

Its usable but you have to run 

 # augenrules --load

Note that this will overwrite /etc/audit/audit.rules

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