Re: no logging of successful events?

Eric Paris
2008-08-18T19:51:42Z

On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 12:49 -0700, Brian LaMere wrote:
> was using a slightly older manpage, which doesn't include that helpful
> clarification :)
>
> Brian
>
> On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 15:25 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 15:18 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > > On Monday 18 August 2008 15:09:34 Brian LaMere wrote:
> > > > So...why is it that "LIST_RULES: exit,always success!=0 syscall=open"
> > > > doesn't disregard the successful calls?
> > >
> > > Because that means log the successful calls. If you only want the unsuccessful
> > > calls, I'd suggest success = 0. Its easy to confuse the success field with
> > > exits codes which return 0 for success. This question pops up every now and
> > > again. :)
> >
> > Isn't that why man auditctl talks about success=no and success=yes? So you don't have to remember?

Actually sgrubb tells me that the =yes and =no is actually bug in the
man page :(

You should add it to auditctl steve :)

-Eric