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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Is unlink the audit equivalent of rmdir?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:19:25 -0400
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On Friday, October 25, 2013 11:53:47 AM leam hall wrote:
> For audit.rules purposes, if the stig.rules from the repo audits on unlink,
> does that cover rmdir?

No. If you strace the rmdir command you will see what syscalls are involved. 
The rmdir syscall is involved.

-Steev