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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: ausearch nodes option
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 10:42:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906051042.19485.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1244210822.31664.515.camel@homeserver>

On Friday 05 June 2009 10:07:02 am LC Bruzenak wrote:
> In an ausearch I would like to look for events from multiple hosts.
> Ideally I would have multiple "-n <HOSTNAME>" entries which would return
> events for any of the hosts.
>
> The man page says that the options form an "and" statement. I find this
> isn't the case with multiple hosts specified, but the result is the
> "last host listed wins":

ausearch has one and exactly one entry for each search option that you add to 
a command line. Two nodes don't work just as two files or two terminals don't 
work. It does however do a partial match. So you could have a naming scheme 
that allows search by subnet.

ausearch -n 192.168.1


> I may patch my own ausearch to behave differently.

If you patch yours, send it to the list.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-05 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-05 14:07 ausearch nodes option LC Bruzenak
2009-06-05 14:42 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2009-06-05 15:12   ` LC Bruzenak

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