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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: linux-audit@redhat.com, burn@swtf.dyndns.org
Subject: Re: Can one compile the lastest ausearch (from 2.4) and just deploy that resultant binary on a RHEL 5 or 6 system
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 08:47:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2078568.xmbmqYfjdr@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409740583.2752.6.camel@swtf.swtf.dyndns.org>

On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 08:36:23 PM Burn Alting wrote:
> I would like to be able to use some of the recent enhancements to
> ausearch on old RHEL/Centos releases (5.X, 6.X) if that's possible.
> 
> Can I safely achieve this?

On RHEL6, yes. RHEL5...no. There is an ABI difference between RHEL5 and 6 in 
libaudit. There are functions that RHEL5 uses that are deprecated on RHEL6. 
This is the reason that there is a 1.8 branch in svn.


> I realise I would have to hand craft the compilation of ausearch, say within
> the 2.4 release, but am I going to come across other issues?

Unfortunately, yes you will have significant issues on RHEL5. That said, RHEL6 
should be easy. Just use a RHEL6 audit.spec file as your starting point.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-03 12:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-03 10:36 Can one compile the lastest ausearch (from 2.4) and just deploy that resultant binary on a RHEL 5 or 6 system Burn Alting
2014-09-03 12:47 ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2014-09-03 13:32   ` Burn Alting

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