another issue with Audit

[Linda Knippers]

That's really strange.  I'm running the .16 kernel and the audit-1.2
audit tools on an x86 and I'm not seeing the problem.  I'll upgrade and
see what happens.

-- ljk

Loulwa Salem wrote:
> This is a really strange problem .. seems like I have a knack to finding 
> those.
> 
> I am running lspp.18 kernel (SELinux in permissive mode), audit-1.2.1 on 
> an x86_64 system.
> 
> Here is what is happening .. someone else please try this and let me 
> know if you see the same problem...
> 
> # auditctl -w /tmp/file1    >> works fine
> # auditctl -w /tmp/file6
> Error sending add rule request (File exists)
> # auditctl -w /tmp/afile
> Error sending add rule request (File exists)
> # auditctl -w /tmp/newfile    >> works fine
> # auditctl -w /tmp/thefile
> Error sending add rule request (File exists)
> 
> Here is what I noticed from this pattern ... as long as the length of 
> the file name I am adding watch on is the same, it says the watch 
> already exists... So I tried something else to see if only the file name 
> matters or the whole path length ...
> 
> # mkdir /foo
> # auditctl -w /foo/file3    >> notice .. same length as /tmp/file1
> Error sending add rule request (File exists)
> # auditctl -w /foo/foofile >> notice .. same length as /tmp/newfile
> Error sending add rule request (File exists)
> # auditctl -w /foo/anotherfile    >> works fine
> 
> So you see ... even using a different directory still says the watch 
> exists.
> 
> If this is happening with others .. this definitely seems like a bug to me.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Loulwa
> 
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