Possible performance bug

Chris Wright chrisw at osdl.org
Fri Sep 9 22:47:26 UTC 2005


* Linda Knippers (linda.knippers at hp.com) wrote:
> Would it be better to not allow auditing to be enabled after boot
> then?  I'm concerned about the case where auditing isn't started
> at boot time but enabled later.  There could be alot of processes
> that won't be audited.  If things can't be both dynamic and correct
> then I vote for correct.

That would also mean you can't disable dynamically (as it would be
a reboot to turn it back on).  This sounds overally restrictive.
I'd vote for documented and left up to admin (with sane default).
It's pretty useful (at least from development perspective ;-) to disable,
then re-enable.




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