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From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Duplicate settings?
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 10:23:50 -0500
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On Monday, January 20, 2020 10:00:06 AM EST Leam Hall wrote:
> On 1/20/20 9:37 AM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > On Monday, January 20, 2020 9:24:56 AM EST Leam Hall wrote:
> >> If /etc/audit/auditd.conf encounters conflicting duplicate settings,
> >> 
> >> what happens? Takes the first, takes the last, or what? For example:
> >> 	space_left = 25
> >> 	space_left = 100
> > 
> > It overwrites the first value with the second one. You can also run:
> > 
> > # service auditd state
> > 
> > to see what the current value is if your audit daemon is somewhat recent.
> 
> Hey Steve, thanks! We're on the default RHEL/CentOS 7 auditd, and
> "state" doesn't show space_left.

2.8.5 and later should have it. You have to be in daemon mode and write_logs 
enabled.

-Steve