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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: Leam Hall <leamhall@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Duplicate settings?
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:14:51 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29812992.164tRMTlZt@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <faddae2c-ba8b-2061-55b0-9f3eaab93c87@gmail.com>

On Monday, January 20, 2020 10:04:24 AM EST Leam Hall wrote:
> On 1/20/20 9:37 AM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > On Monday, January 20, 2020 9:24:56 AM EST Leam Hall wrote:
> >> If /etc/audit/auditd.conf encounters conflicting duplicate settings,
> >> what happens? Takes the first, takes the last, or what? For example:
> >> 
> >> space_left = 25
> >> space_left = 100
> > 
> > It overwrites the first value with the second one. You can also run:
> > 
> > # service auditd state
> > 
> > to see what the current value is if your audit daemon is somewhat recent.
> > 
> > -Steve
> 
> Hey Steve, a follow up. Is the man page for auditd.conf wrong? My auditd
> failed to start when giving space_left with a '%' sign.

Usually it writes the reason why in syslog. Does it say anything there?

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-20 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-20 14:24 Duplicate settings? Leam Hall
2020-01-20 14:37 ` Steve Grubb
2020-01-20 15:00   ` Leam Hall
2020-01-20 15:23     ` Steve Grubb
2020-01-20 15:04   ` Leam Hall
2020-01-20 15:14     ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2020-01-20 15:19       ` Leam Hall
2020-01-20 15:28         ` Steve Grubb
2020-01-20 15:38           ` Leam Hall

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