From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com, dean@defreitas.net
Subject: Re: ausearch & aureport fail from cron
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 09:16:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201206010916.15621.sgrubb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <112530930.8418.1338388454285.JavaMail.mail@webmail10>
On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:34:14 AM dean@defreitas.net wrote:
> I am using RHEL 5.8 (upgraded from 5.7) and I can not get these reporting
> tools to work from cron. I have tried many variations to no avail:
>
> /sbin/ausearch -if /var/log/audit/audit.log -ts 05/29/2012 00:00:00 -te
> 05/29/2012 23:59:59 > somefile.txt /sbin/ausearch --input-logs -ts
> 05/29/2012 00:00:00 -te 05/29/2012 23:59:59 > somefile.txt cat
> /var/log/audit/audit.log | /sbin/ausearch -ts 05/29/2012 00:00:00 -te
> 05/29/2012 23:59:59 > somefile.txt
>
> Each of those work from the command line and in a script, but fail when the
> script is run from cron.
You need to pass the "--input-logs" command line option to force it to look at
the logs instead of stdin.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-01 13:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-30 14:34 ausearch & aureport fail from cron dean
2012-06-01 13:16 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2012-06-01 18:54 ` Dean DeFreitas
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