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From: Matthew Booth <mbooth@redhat.com>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Events lost with dispatcher
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:44:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BBC7E18.7080004@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003311556.34422.sgrubb@redhat.com>

On 31/03/10 20:56, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Wait, you are writing a dispatcher...are you boosting your priority above 
> auditd? If not, you should probably increase it by at least 4. Your dispatcher 
> has to stay ahead of auditd.

On a related note, has there been any more thought about loading
dispatchers into auditd itself as dynamic libraries? This would solve
this problem, and also the issue of accidentally writing a rule which is
triggered by a dispatcher, causing a DOS.

Matt
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-07 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-31 19:07 Events lost with dispatcher Vishwanath Venkatesan
2010-03-31 19:26 ` Steve Grubb
2010-03-31 19:32   ` Vishwanath Venkatesan
2010-03-31 19:48     ` Steve Grubb
2010-03-31 19:56       ` Steve Grubb
2010-04-07 12:44         ` Matthew Booth [this message]
2010-04-07 13:00           ` Steve Grubb

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