ausearch on aggregation - syscall difference

LC Bruzenak lenny at magitekltd.com
Fri Oct 24 18:38:45 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 14:28 -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> >   
> This problem occurs because ausearch naively assumes  the log  data it's 
> parsing originated  on the same machine it's running on. Instead of 
> reading the arch from the audit record it calls audit_detect_machine() 
> which calls uname(). It then uses the machine arch it found with uname() 
> to interpret the syscall number. Auparse has the same problem.
> 

The audit-viewer gets the right syscall for the event's arch.

LCB.

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LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
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