From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Cc: Leam Hall <leamhall@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Duplicate settings?
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:28:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1620604.diqz4lFvfc@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb281668-ee20-5c23-684e-5e397136956c@gmail.com>
On Monday, January 20, 2020 10:19:59 AM EST Leam Hall wrote:
> On 1/20/20 10:14 AM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > On Monday, January 20, 2020 10:04:24 AM EST Leam Hall wrote:
> >> On 1/20/20 9:37 AM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> >>> On Monday, January 20, 2020 9:24:56 AM EST Leam Hall wrote:
> >>>> If /etc/audit/auditd.conf encounters conflicting duplicate settings,
> >>>> what happens? Takes the first, takes the last, or what? For example:
> >>>>
> >>>> space_left = 25
> >>>> space_left = 100
> >>>
> >>> It overwrites the first value with the second one. You can also run:
> >>>
> >>> # service auditd state
> >>>
> >>> to see what the current value is if your audit daemon is somewhat
> >>> recent.
> >>
> >> Hey Steve, a follow up. Is the man page for auditd.conf wrong? My auditd
> >> failed to start when giving space_left with a '%' sign.
> >
> > Usually it writes the reason why in syslog. Does it say anything there?
>
> I don't grok systemd, so here's the whole response:
>
> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status auditd.service
> ● auditd.service - Security Auditing Service
> Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/auditd.service; enabled;
> vendor preset: enabled)
> Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2020-01-20 09:27:37
> EST; 19min ago
> Docs: man:auditd(8)
> https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-documentation
> Process: 2695 ExecStart=/sbin/auditd (code=exited, status=6)
>
> Jan 20 09:27:36 leam_c7 systemd[1]: Starting Security Auditing Service...
> Jan 20 09:27:37 leam_c7 auditd[2695]: Value 25% should only be numbers -
> line 20
The issue is here ^^^ To use percentages, you have to be on 2.8.5 or later.
-Steve
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-20 14:24 Duplicate settings? Leam Hall
2020-01-20 14:37 ` Steve Grubb
2020-01-20 15:00 ` Leam Hall
2020-01-20 15:23 ` Steve Grubb
2020-01-20 15:04 ` Leam Hall
2020-01-20 15:14 ` Steve Grubb
2020-01-20 15:19 ` Leam Hall
2020-01-20 15:28 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2020-01-20 15:38 ` Leam Hall
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