auditctl exit code

[Steve Grubb]

On Friday, May 11, 2012 08:20:06 AM Stephen Quinney wrote:
> I am using Linux Audit version 2.1.3 and I'm wondering if the
> following behaviour of auditctl is intentional. 

No. I think its a bug in the code.

-Steve

> When I do a complete
> list of the current rules (with auditctl -l) I get an exit code of
> zero, as expected. When I do a list which is restricted to a
> particular key (auditctl -l -k foo) I get 255. It doesn't matter which
> of my keys I use and there are no error messages sent to stderr to
> indicate a problem. The auditctl manpage doesn't say what various exit
> values mean so I'm not sure what type of error is occurring.
> 
> 
> Stephen Quinney