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From: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Subject: Checking for audit_enabled in the kernel
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 12:48:07 -0500
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I'm trying to find a way to quickly determine if auditing is enabled and it
looks like the only real way to do that is to declare audit_enabled as an extern
and check the variable directly.  Is there some interface for this that I am
missing?

-- 
paul moore
linux security @ hp