no logging of successful events?

Brian LaMere brianl at clinicomp.com
Mon Aug 18 19:49:36 UTC 2008


was using a slightly older manpage, which doesn't include that helpful
clarification :)

Brian

On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 15:25 -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 15:18 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > On Monday 18 August 2008 15:09:34 Brian LaMere wrote:
> > > So...why is it that "LIST_RULES: exit,always success!=0 syscall=open"
> > > doesn't disregard the successful calls? 
> > 
> > Because that means log the successful calls. If you only want the unsuccessful 
> > calls, I'd suggest success = 0. Its easy to confuse the success field with 
> > exits codes which return 0 for success. This question pops up every now and 
> > again.  :)
> 
> Isn't that why man auditctl talks about success=no and success=yes?  So you don't have to remember?
> 




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