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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: how to audit auditd itself ?
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2017 11:11:00 -0400
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On Friday, September 1, 2017 8:58:47 AM EDT Maupertuis Philippe wrote:
> The 30-pci-dss-v31.rules in the doc directory contains the following
> statement : ## 10.2.6 Verify the following are logged:
> ## Initialization of audit logs
> ## Stopping or pausing of audit logs.
> ## These are handled implicitly by auditd
> 
> This very good since nothing need to be done,  but how can I actually find
> when these events occur ?

DAEMON_START
DAEMON_END

> I am not sure what means "pausing of audit logs",
> can we really "pause" auditd ?

In a sense you can by stopping the service.

-Steve