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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: unlimit retries for remote plugin restart
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 13:55:35 -0400
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On Thursday, April 12, 2018 2:13:39 AM EDT Levin Stanislav wrote:
> Let's assume we have client's audit service and audit gatherer placed on
> a remote host.
> 
> Using au-remote plugin client sends logs to remote.
> 
> Let's stop (do not start then) remote's audit service and restart
> client's one.
> 
> After that overcome max_restarts limit (e.g. default 10) from
> /etc/audisp/audispd.conf by audit's events.
> 
> Then start remote's audit service and trigger any audit event on client.
> But audisp-remote process is dead ("plugin /sbin/audisp-remote has
> exceeded max_restarts").
> 
> How can i solve this issue without client's audit service
> restart? Is it possible by any settings/configs?

Please give audit-2.8.4 a shot. It should solve this problem.

-Steve