From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Mather Subject: Sucess or failure? Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:48:12 -0400 Message-ID: <1342921692.2543.10.camel@debian.domain_name> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx14.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.19]) by int-mx02.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id q6M1mDM4025854 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:48:13 -0400 Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.182]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q6M1mAk6025623 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2012 21:48:11 -0400 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@redhat.com List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com Hi, I enter the command "sudo cp qwerty /etc/xxx" and get the reply: "cp: cannot stat `qwerty': No such file or directory." A number of log entries are written. The last two are, in part: type=SYSCALL success=yes type=EXECVE argc=3 a0="cp" a1="qwerty" a2="/etc/xxx" My problem is with "success=yes". What is happening? Thanks - Michael Mather -----------------------