From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Double addition of rule yields two log messages
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 14:24:21 -0400
Message-ID: <200605191424.21699.sgrubb@redhat.com>
References: <446DE295.8040503@us.ibm.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
  charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Return-path: <linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <446DE295.8040503@us.ibm.com>
Content-Disposition: inline
List-Unsubscribe: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit>,
	<mailto:linux-audit-request@redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit>
List-Post: <mailto:linux-audit@redhat.com>
List-Help: <mailto:linux-audit-request@redhat.com?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit>,
	<mailto:linux-audit-request@redhat.com?subject=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

On Friday 19 May 2006 11:21, Michael C Thompson wrote:
> Adding a rule successfully (i.e. not malformed and that rule didn't
> already exist) creates a log entry:
> type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1147986115.721:28510): auid=0
> subj=root:staff_r:staff_t:s0-s15:c0.c255 add rule to list=2 res=0

This one is a failure. res=0. (I suspect you copied the wrong one.)

> Then, adding the same rule again will resulting in an error message
> being reported to the user saying that rule exists (although it uses the
> work "File exists", which if that could be changed to "Rule exists",
> might be nice).

I'll fix that.

> However, despite this apparent failure, we get a log entry: 
> type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1147986117.389:28511): auid=0
> subj=root:staff_r:staff_t:s0-s15:c0.c255 add rule to list=2 res=0

This is reporting that an attempt was made to add a rule and it failed. When 
you add a rule and it succeeds, res=1.

-Steve