Re: [PATCH] Add auditd listener and remote audit protocol

LC Bruzenak
2008-08-15T00:22:24Z

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 20:07 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Thursday 14 August 2008 19:50:23 LC Bruzenak wrote:
> > I cannot speak for other end-users...but my guess is that if they are
> > using audit and aggregating they probably care about not dropping it,
> > whereas others can just syslog the events if the auditd isn't enabled
> > and then use centralized syslog, right?
>
> Does syslog queue unsent messages and recover them?
>
> -Steve

Not AFAIK...but then again it isn't configurable to panic the machine on
failure.

I think you have a good point - this is the first cut and maybe later on
institute a "replay daemon" or something which can send events on
reconnect.

We will not lose them locally so that's covered. After that it is a
different problem.

Thx,
LCB.

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LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
lenny@magitekltd.com