Re: the meaning of this audit entry

Steve Grubb
2007-11-21T02:17:38Z

On Tuesday 20 November 2007 07:49:00 pm Mike Nixon wrote:
> Looks to me like someone that was logged in as 'root' attempted but failed
> to read a x-windows file.  The relevant tipoffs are:
>
> syscall=3  (read)
> success=no      (failed)
> uid=0           (root user account)
> comm="X" or exe="/usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg"

You are forgetting the exit code. In this case, it matters. :)

-Steve