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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
To: David Flatley <dflatley@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Audit rotate
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:46:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6261675.DUDNApPUjC@x2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF7630C5EA.A2CF5797-ON85257DC7.005ABFB7-85257DC7.005B7BE9@us.ibm.com>

On Thursday, January 08, 2015 11:39:17 AM David Flatley wrote:
>     Trying to setup Auditing on a Suse Server 11 SP3 with audit version
> 1.8.0.3. Apparently "audit rotate" is not available on this version of
> auditd? I know from past posts by Steve Grubb that logrotate does not
> work well rotating /var/log/audit/audit.log. So any thoughts on doing audit
> logrotations?

"service auditd rotate" is simply a convenience for sending SIGUSR1 to auditd. 
That is all you need to do to force rotation of the logs.

-Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-08 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-06 18:54 Is audit=1 still required for RHEL 7? Erinn Looney-Triggs
2015-01-06 19:13 ` Steve Grubb
2015-01-06 19:16   ` Erinn Looney-Triggs
2015-01-08 10:12     ` Burak Gürer
2015-01-08 13:03       ` Steve Grubb
2015-01-08 13:33         ` Burak Gürer
2015-01-08 14:13           ` Steve Grubb
2015-01-12 10:12             ` auid=4294967295 issue Burak Gürer
2015-01-12 14:54               ` Steve Grubb
2015-01-08 16:39         ` Audit rotate David Flatley
2015-01-08 16:46           ` Steve Grubb [this message]
2015-01-08 17:17             ` David Flatley
2015-01-08 17:23               ` Steve Grubb
2015-01-08 17:47                 ` David Flatley

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