no logging of successful events?

Eric Paris eparis at redhat.com
Mon Aug 18 19:51:42 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 12:49 -0700, Brian LaMere wrote:
> 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?

Actually sgrubb tells me that the =yes and =no is actually bug in the
man page  :(

You should add it to auditctl steve   :)

-Eric




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