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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: John Dennis <jdennis@redhat.com>
Cc: William Kelly <wkelly@rackspace.com>,
	linux-audit@redhat.com, Bret Piatt <bret.piatt@rackspace.com>
Subject: Re: get_field_str() and interpret_field() bug with multi-word fields
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:24:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808121724.09725.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A1FBFE.1000208@redhat.com>

On Tuesday 12 August 2008 17:09:18 John Dennis wrote:
> The fact you can have any combination of kernel, user code, and
> historical log files is precisely why this need to be fixed ASAP. Why?
> Because there is no value in being backwards compatible with a data
> stream you can't read when any of the three components (kernel, user
> libraries, files) are permuted.

John, you are very wrong here. We are about to role out remote logging for the 
audit system. Anyone who works on production systems knows that they stay 
deployed for many years because re-deploying takes manhours and is therefore 
a cost sink. The less you touch a system, the better off you are financially.

So, in the future you will likely have a RHEL6 machine aggregating RHEL5 
machines. They will not be happy if they find that they have to upgrade all 
the machines just to do reports. There's no way I'm going to tell people we 
are cutting you off, you have to upgrade.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-12 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-12 17:49 get_field_str() and interpret_field() bug with multi-word fields Jonathan Kelly
2008-08-12 18:05 ` LC Bruzenak
2008-08-12 18:52   ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 19:02     ` LC Bruzenak
2008-08-12 18:16 ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 21:13   ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-12 22:10     ` Matthew Booth
2008-08-12 23:01       ` Eric Paris
2008-08-12 19:16 ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-12 19:58   ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 20:11     ` Eric Paris
2008-08-12 20:32       ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-12 21:09         ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 21:24           ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2008-08-12 22:37             ` John Dennis
2008-08-13  0:33         ` Klaus Heinrich Kiwi
2008-08-13 15:09           ` Eric Paris
2008-08-13 16:25             ` Klaus Heinrich Kiwi
2008-08-13 17:02               ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-13 17:30                 ` LC Bruzenak
2008-08-13 18:49                 ` Linda Knippers
2008-08-13 19:58                   ` John Dennis
2008-08-14 18:25               ` Stephen Smalley
2008-08-15 13:58                 ` Matteo Michelini
2008-08-15 14:10                   ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-15 15:27                     ` Matteo Michelini
2008-08-15 14:15                   ` Stephen Smalley
2008-08-13 16:29             ` John Dennis
2008-08-13 22:35           ` Casey Schaufler
2008-08-12 20:57       ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 21:18         ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-12 21:40           ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 21:53             ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-12 22:11               ` John Dennis
2008-08-12 22:46                 ` Steve Grubb
2008-08-12 22:59         ` Eric Paris
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-13 16:57 Jonathan Kelly

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