Re: auditctl exit code

[Stephen Quinney <squinney@inf.ed.ac.uk>]

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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