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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: auditd start failure
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:43:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5379838.d4n6s4eucp@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6dAmcSXXM5e_1X6ViK8StchuowAa840E0E35vDuiAK6gjgtA@mail.gmail.com>

On Friday, August 16, 2013 11:38:32 AM zhu xiuming wrote:
> HI
> Suddently, my auditd can't start. I do not know why.
> I remember I changed some permission settings on /var/log/audit. However,
> even I change it back, the auditd cann't be started.
> 
> I looked at the audit.log. It only shows the daemon is closed successfully
> 
> I wonder whether there is other log file I should look.

Its writes failure messages to /var/log/messages.  I sometimes troubleshoot 
issues by starting the daemon by hand in the foreground mode so that 
everything is written to the screen. /sbin/auditd  -f 

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-16 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-16 18:38 auditd start failure zhu xiuming
2013-08-16 18:43 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2013-08-16 18:48   ` zhu xiuming
2013-08-16 18:53     ` Steve Grubb

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