Error deleting rule during shutdown with -e 2

[Steve Grubb]

On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 11:12:55 AM Daniel Neuberger wrote:
> When stopping auditd during a system shutdown, I see the following error:
> 
> Error deleting rule (Operation not permitted)
> 
> My audit.rules file looks like:
> ------------------------
> -D
> [trimmed]
> -a always,exit -F arch=b32 -S open -S openat -F exit=-EPERM -k access4
> -w /etc/sudoers -p wa -k actions  -p wax
> [trimmed]
> -e 2
> ------------------------
> 
> The only ways I've found to fix this is to remove the -e 2 option, but
> we need our rules to be immutable?

Right. If its immutable, you cannot delete the rule. I suppose I could add some code 
here so that it succeed but outputs the reason why it cannot honor the request.


> Also based on looking at the auditd init script, setting
> AUDITD_CLEAN_STOP=no during shutdown would work, but I don't want to
> modify the script.

You would normally modify /etc/sysconfig/auditd  to adjust this setting. This is 
considered a config file that rpm will not overwrite.

-Steve