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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: Matthew Booth <mbooth@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Events lost with dispatcher
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 09:00:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004070900.41900.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BBC7E18.7080004@redhat.com>

On Wednesday 07 April 2010 08:44:08 am Matthew Booth wrote:
> On 31/03/10 20:56, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > Wait, you are writing a dispatcher...are you boosting your priority above
> > auditd? If not, you should probably increase it by at least 4. Your
> > dispatcher has to stay ahead of auditd.
> 
> On a related note, has there been any more thought about loading
> dispatchers into auditd itself as dynamic libraries?

Its been in the official TODO file for about 7-8 months. There just isn't any 
time for me to work on it right now or for a few more months.


> This would solve this problem, 

This particular problem turned out to be a bad Ubuntu kernel. Everything works 
as advertised when he switched to Fedora.


> and also the issue of accidentally writing a rule which is
> triggered by a dispatcher, causing a DOS.

-Steve

      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-07 13:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-31 19:07 Events lost with dispatcher Vishwanath Venkatesan
2010-03-31 19:26 ` Steve Grubb
2010-03-31 19:32   ` Vishwanath Venkatesan
2010-03-31 19:48     ` Steve Grubb
2010-03-31 19:56       ` Steve Grubb
2010-04-07 12:44         ` Matthew Booth
2010-04-07 13:00           ` Steve Grubb [this message]

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