Double addition of rule yields two log messages

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Fri May 19 18:29:18 UTC 2006


On Friday 19 May 2006 14:06, Linda Knippers wrote:
> Wow, not very intuitive.  The auditctl manpage talks about lists
> by name (entry, exclude, etc), not by number.  

The man pages don't ever talk about the numbers that are behind any of this.

> With the 1.2.1 tools ausearch with the '-i' option doesn't translate the
> number into a name. 

Right.

> Does it with the 1.2.2 tools? 

No. I have not had time to work on user space tools. The intent is to make it 
do that with the -i param.

> Speaking of ausearch, I just noticed that it emits this message:
>
> # /sbin/ausearch -m CONFIG_CHANGE -i
> Warning - freq is non-zero and incremental flushing not selected.

That comes from the config file parser. You've got a problem 
in /etc/audit/auditd.conf that should be fixed.

-Steve




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