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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: How to learn the Message type?
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:49:21 -0500
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On Thursday 21 January 2010 04:29:04 pm David Flatley wrote:
> Auditd fails to start due to -D in the /etc/audit/audit.rules file on
> two of my RHEL 5.3 systems.
> I am using Steve Grubb's STIG audit.rules file. Did I miss something with
> 5.3??

The very last command in that file puts the audit system in immutable mode - 
meaning you cannot change the rules without rebooting. Comment out that line 
if you want to let any changes into the audit system at any time.

-Steve