auditctl exit code

auditctl exit code

[Stephen Quinney]

I am using Linux Audit version 2.1.3 and I'm wondering if the
following behaviour of auditctl is intentional. When I do a complete
list of the current rules (with auditctl -l) I get an exit code of
zero, as expected. When I do a list which is restricted to a
particular key (auditctl -l -k foo) I get 255. It doesn't matter which
of my keys I use and there are no error messages sent to stderr to
indicate a problem. The auditctl manpage doesn't say what various exit
values mean so I'm not sure what type of error is occurring.


Stephen Quinney


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Re: auditctl exit code

[Steve Grubb]

On Friday, May 11, 2012 08:20:06 AM Stephen Quinney wrote:
> I am using Linux Audit version 2.1.3 and I'm wondering if the
> following behaviour of auditctl is intentional. 

No. I think its a bug in the code.

-Steve

> When I do a complete
> list of the current rules (with auditctl -l) I get an exit code of
> zero, as expected. When I do a list which is restricted to a
> particular key (auditctl -l -k foo) I get 255. It doesn't matter which
> of my keys I use and there are no error messages sent to stderr to
> indicate a problem. The auditctl manpage doesn't say what various exit
> values mean so I'm not sure what type of error is occurring.
> 
> 
> Stephen Quinney

Re: auditctl exit code

[Steve Grubb]

On Friday, May 11, 2012 10:34:52 AM Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Friday, May 11, 2012 08:20:06 AM Stephen Quinney wrote:
> > I am using Linux Audit version 2.1.3 and I'm wondering if the
> > following behaviour of auditctl is intentional.
> 
> No. I think its a bug in the code.

This should fix it:
https://fedorahosted.org/audit/changeset/694

-Steve


> > When I do a complete
> > list of the current rules (with auditctl -l) I get an exit code of
> > zero, as expected. When I do a list which is restricted to a
> > particular key (auditctl -l -k foo) I get 255. It doesn't matter which
> > of my keys I use and there are no error messages sent to stderr to
> > indicate a problem. The auditctl manpage doesn't say what various exit
> > values mean so I'm not sure what type of error is occurring.

Re: auditctl exit code

[Stephen Quinney]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 08:03:27PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Friday, May 11, 2012 10:34:52 AM Steve Grubb wrote:
> > On Friday, May 11, 2012 08:20:06 AM Stephen Quinney wrote:
> > > I am using Linux Audit version 2.1.3 and I'm wondering if the
> > > following behaviour of auditctl is intentional.
> > >
> > > When I do a complete
> > > list of the current rules (with auditctl -l) I get an exit code of
> > > zero, as expected. When I do a list which is restricted to a
> > > particular key (auditctl -l -k foo) I get 255. It doesn't matter which
> > > of my keys I use and there are no error messages sent to stderr to
> > > indicate a problem. The auditctl manpage doesn't say what various exit
> > > values mean so I'm not sure what type of error is occurring.
> > 
> > No. I think its a bug in the code.
> 
> This should fix it:
> https://fedorahosted.org/audit/changeset/694
> 

Thanks for the patch. I've just rebuilt the code with the patch
applied and it now works correctly.


Cheers,

Stephen

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