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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Events lost with dispatcher
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 09:00:41 -0400
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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