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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: auditd fails to start on FC6 system, newer kernels effect?
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:05:12 -0500
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On Monday 19 November 2007 01:23:25 pm Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > Connection refused sounds as if something else isn't running that sho=
uld
> > be, but no direct clue, so what else needs to run too, before auditd?

Nothing else needs to be running. The audit daemon is one of the first us=
er=20
space daemons started by design.


> More of a question for linux-audit (cc'd). =C2=A0Offhand, I'd guess tha=
t the
> ECONNREFUSED is coming from the netlink code, but I don't know why.

Right. It would be good to know if this was due to connect() failing. FWI=
W, I=20
have not tested the audit system on 2.6.24 at all yet.

-Steve