Re: Disabling monitoring of a subfolder

[Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>]

On Thursday, November 24, 2011 09:46:57 AM Marina Gray wrote:
> I have a folder which I'd like to monitor with auditd, with the
> exception of one specific subdirectory. Is there any way I can disable
> monitoring just that subdirectory, but keep monitoring the rest of the
> dir recursively as usual?
> 
> Say, I first do:
> 
> auditctl -w /var/mydata/ -k my-data -p w
> 
> and want to exclude looking at /var/mydata/tmp_data/

The kernel was patched at some point to allow excluding folders, but the excluded 
folder has to be before the recursive folder - order matters.

-a never,exit -F dir=/var/mydata/tmp_data/
-a always,exit -F dir=/var/mydata/ -F key=my-data -F perm=w

If this doesn't work, you are probably on an older kernel that can't do it.

-Steve