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* Can one compile the lastest ausearch (from 2.4) and just deploy that resultant binary on a RHEL 5 or 6 system
@ 2014-09-03 10:36 Burn Alting
  2014-09-03 12:47 ` Steve Grubb
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Burn Alting @ 2014-09-03 10:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-audit

Hi All,

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? 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?

Regards
Burn

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* Re: Can one compile the lastest ausearch (from 2.4) and just deploy that resultant binary on a RHEL 5 or 6 system
  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
  2014-09-03 13:32   ` Burn Alting
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Steve Grubb @ 2014-09-03 12:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-audit, burn

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

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* Re: Can one compile the lastest ausearch (from 2.4) and just deploy that resultant binary on a RHEL 5 or 6 system
  2014-09-03 12:47 ` Steve Grubb
@ 2014-09-03 13:32   ` Burn Alting
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Burn Alting @ 2014-09-03 13:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steve Grubb; +Cc: linux-audit

Thanks Steve.

Rgds

Burn

On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 08:47 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 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

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