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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Audit rotate
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 11:46:43 -0500
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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