Possible performance bug

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Fri Sep 9 21:17:47 UTC 2005


On Friday 09 September 2005 17:09, Linda Knippers wrote:
> Amy and I were talking earlier and it seemed to be the case that when audit
> is enabled, only new processes get audited so it would be a general
> problem any time a system is booted without audit running, not
> just when audit is re-enabled.  Do we have that right?

I think so. The audit daemon is started pretty early so I don't think its a 
huge problems. But to be sure, you could always add the audit=1 boot 
parameter and it should catch everything.

I think we need to fix this going forward. The boot param is a workaround for 
already released kernels.

-Steve




More information about the Linux-audit mailing list