From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: LC Bruzenak Subject: user message limits Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:01:08 -0600 Message-ID: <1233100868.30154.103.camel@homeserver> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n0S01PMC014032 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:01:25 -0500 Received: from mail.magitekltd.com (rrcs-24-242-137-197.sw.biz.rr.com [24.242.137.197]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n0S019ha002652 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:01:09 -0500 Received: from [24.242.137.194] (helo=[192.168.30.40]) by mail.magitekltd.com with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LRxqr-0000yF-FC for linux-audit@redhat.com; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:00:17 -0600 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com To: Linux Audit List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com I know I can go look at the code, however I figured I'd ask here first about the limits on the user message in both audit_log_user_message and ausearch. With audit_log_user_message the maximum length allowed appears to be around MAX_AUDIT_MESSAGE_LENGTH-100. I think it may depend on the executable name length (and other stuff auto-pushed into the string) which is why I say "around". Even when I get a successful return value (from audit_log_user_message), I don't get my string back out in "ausearch" unless it is WAY smaller - ~1K or less I think. Any ideas/thoughts? This is the latest (1.7.11-2) audit package. Thx, LCB. -- LC (Lenny) Bruzenak lenny@magitekltd.com