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From: Peter Moody <pmoody@google.com>
Subject: auditd without a logfile?
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 21:10:50 -0700
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Is there anyway to run auditd without any local logging? I'm trying to
see if I can get auditd to completely avoid logging locally, using only
a custom dispatcher to log events remotely but auditd refuses to start
if I set log_file = '/dev/null'.

Cheers,
peter