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From: "Timothy R. Chavez" <tinytim@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Logging failed open() calls on /var/log/audit/audit.log
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:32:46 -0500
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On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 17:21 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 June 2006 17:15, Amy Griffis wrote:
> > If you would like to see a record in this case, you must add a watch
> > for /var/log/audit.
> 
> I don't see a record watching this either.
> 
> -Steve

Maybe because you're executing in the system-call attempting the access
of audit.log and it's in this context the permissions to do so are
checked.  Been awhile, but looking at fs/open.c:do_sys_open, should
there be an fsnotify_open() hook in the error path as well?

-tim