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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Using audit for service monitoring...
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:46:46 -0400
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On Thursday 28 September 2006 16:29, Randy Zagar wrote:
> More importantly, is this an appropriate use of the audit subsystem, or
> should I be doing this some other way?

Generally, the audit system is used for logging security relevant artifac=
ts.=20
But its been used for bootup readahead analysis, too. So, you could use i=
t=20
for this, but you might get more data than you want. Try it and see.

> If this is the right way to do it, how can I easily determine which
> syscalls can return ESTALE? =C2=A0Using '-S all' seems wasteful...

Maybe you can try "auditctl -a exit,always -F perm=3Dall -F exit=3D-13"

perm selects filesystem classes of syscalls.

-Steve