audit-viewer
Dan Gruhn
Dan.Gruhn at GroupW.com
Mon Mar 2 20:59:58 UTC 2009
Greetings,
Miloslav Trmac wrote:
> Hello,
> ----- "Dan Gruhn" <Dan.Gruhn at groupw.com> wrote:
>
>> I am getting this error when audit viewer starts:
>>
>> # audit-viewer
>> Error reading audit events: No such file or directory.
>>
>> Thinking that perhaps something is pointing to the wrong files, I
>> attempted to use Window/Change event source.. . Then I get this:
>>
> <snip>
>
>> File "/usr/local/share/audit-viewer/source_dialog.py", line 161, in
>>
>> __source_log_with_rotated_toggled
>> self.source_log.set_active_iter(it)
>> TypeError: iter should be a GtkTreeIter
>>
> This crash is a bug in audit-viewer, I'll fix it for the next release.
>
I look forward to that.
> I'm not 100% sure, but I think the problem is caused by the fact that audit-viewer searches for audit logs in the --prefix subtree (as specified by configure). You can verify the used path by running (strings /your/prefix/libexec/audit-viewer-server-real |grep /log/audit); If it is not /var/log/audit, you'll need to rebuild audit-viewer, specifying --localstatedir=/var .
>
You are right, the path was /usr/local/var/log/audit. Once I recompiled
with this change everything seems to be working. Does this default of
--prefix subree make sense in any situation? I ask because perhaps a
default of /var would more often produce the correct result.
> I'll document the necessity to use --localstatedir.
>
> Thank you,
> Mirek
>
Thank you for taking the time to lead me through all of this. I think I
am on my way now.
Dan
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