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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Watch in audit 1.6
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:54:51 -0500
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On Tuesday 20 January 2009 11:11:52 am Ameel Kamboh wrote:
> Is there a way to exclude watching sub directories as well.

Today, not that I know of. A patch was submitted into the latest development 
kernel (2.6.29) to preserve watch ordering. But you will have to make some 
changes to the rules. A typical watch looks like this:

-w /var/mydir -p wa -k mywatch

its the same as:

-a always,exit -F dir=/var/mydir -F perms=wa -F key=mywatch

In the future, you will be able to do:

-a never,exit -F dir=/var/mydir/runtime
-a always,exit -F dir=/var/mydir -F perms=wa -F key=mywatch

in that specific order since first match wins.

-Steve