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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: James Antill <jantill@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com, "Wieprecht,
	Karen M." <Karen.Wieprecht@jhuapl.edu>
Subject: Re: How to read audit log?
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:02:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200709251302.47171.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190738632.22109.54.camel@code.and.org>

On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:43:52 James Antill wrote:
> > Yes. It would let you write an app that is more efficient than using perl
> > on ausearch output.
>
>  That's not really true,

Sure it is. perl cannot do the interpretations. So you'd have to spend time 
writing all that code and maintain it or use ausearch to provide you that 
functionality.

>  and when it is true it's only because ausearch is so slow at doing "cat":

It does a lot more than "cat". For example, it understands the ordering 
requirements of the logs and searches them in the correct order. It also 
assembles the records into an event before presenting them. It interprets 
some of the data so that its more usable even if you don't ask for a full 
interpretation.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-25 17:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-25 13:21 How to read audit log? Scott Ehrlich
2007-09-25 14:33 ` Steve Grubb
2007-09-25 14:34 ` John Dennis
2007-09-25 14:50   ` Wieprecht, Karen M.
2007-09-25 15:02     ` Steve Grubb
2007-09-25 16:43       ` James Antill
2007-09-25 17:02         ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2007-09-25 17:47           ` Todd, Charles

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