From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Running auditd from inittab
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 15:24:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702021524.38799.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1170421372.6772.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Friday 02 February 2007 08:02, Matthew Booth wrote:
> I was testing various failures of auditd, and amongst them I tested kill
> -SEGV and kill -KILL. I noticed that neither of these generate any audit
> event or log activity.
KILL is uncatchable and SEGV would mean that the audit daemon is about to die,
so no writing would be possible.
> It occurs to me that this could be worked around, and at the same time you
> could provide some additional level of reliability, if auditd could be run
> from inittab.
It was never intended to be run from that.
> Unfortunately, the only option to auditd seems to be -f, and this prevents
> it from logging in the normal manner.
-f is for foreground debug.
> Are there any other options which might achieve this?
No.
> If not, is this a reasonable feature request?
I'm not sure. There are the issues of how to get rules loaded and logging
partition availability.
-Steve
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2007-02-02 13:02 Running auditd from inittab Matthew Booth
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