space_left_action

[Steve Grubb]

On Thursday 30 July 2009 04:13:54 pm LC Bruzenak wrote:
> Good news: When I set the space_left_action to syslog and crossed the
> boundary, I got a syslog message on the next audit event. Subsequent
> events did not generate any further syslog messages.
>
> Then I freed up disk space, sent in a few events for good measure
> (thinking it would reset the flag) and once again filled the disk past
> the threshold.
> Bad news: I didn't get the message again.

Did you do a  "service auditd resume" ?

> Should this behavior have happened as I expected and another log message
> get into the messages log? Or as coded would the auditd need restart?

You shouldn't need to restart it, but you should tell it to resume.

-Steve