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From: "Stephen John Smoogen" <smooge@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Q: audit log rotation.
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:26:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80d7e4090604181126td15b081r2c9f5290cb691980@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.60.0604181238270.18228@sandbox.south-border.com>

On 4/18/06, The UnSeen <ian@south-border.com> wrote:
>
> Is there a way to dictate the format of naming convention of the rotated
> logfiles to better reflect the date range of the data contained in the
> file instead of simply audit.log.1, audit.log.2, etc?  Something perhaps
> defined in the /etc/auditd.conf file?  I'm used to the BSM scheme
> personally.  It would make it easier to manage the files for archiving
> purposes (IMHO).
>
> Also, it would be nice (if it doesn't exist already) to have a way to do
> audit reductions 1 event on a line instead of X lines for an event.


I think there is a set of patches to logrotate in Debian that allows
you to put your rotate format. We had an internal version that rotated
it as .YYYYMMDD for that. I remember there was a bugzilla to add this
for a long time...

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> Ian
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Stephen J Smoogen.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-18 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-18 16:54 Q: audit log rotation The UnSeen
2006-04-18 18:26 ` Stephen John Smoogen [this message]
2006-04-18 18:48 ` Steve Grubb
2006-04-20 19:21 ` Mackay, Scott

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