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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Help with audit syscall event output
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 17:24:39 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <12155994.AWt580abvh@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG-5c_G5ULcbh_TEZEefm0VM8XeDW=OJoLBVRq+1=VO-BtMczA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday, September 3, 2019 5:15:29 PM EDT Ankitha Kundhuru wrote:
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> My piece of code can read audit.log file and process it.But when I enable
> good number of syscalls, disk gets filled really quick (15GB for half a day
> usage)
> I wanted to know if there is a way to directly get the events from
> userspace audit daemon instead of writing it to a file. Plan is that my
> application should process the events as soon as they are created.

Yes, there is a presentation that describes the architecture of the audit 
system including the realtime event interface:

http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/audit_ids_2011.pdf

And there is sample code for a plugin here:

https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace/tree/master/contrib/plugin

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-03 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-03 21:15 Help with audit syscall event output Ankitha Kundhuru
2019-09-03 21:24 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2019-09-03 21:28   ` Ankitha Kundhuru

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