auditd start failure

[Steve Grubb]

On Friday, August 16, 2013 11:38:32 AM zhu xiuming wrote:
> HI
> Suddently, my auditd can't start. I do not know why.
> I remember I changed some permission settings on /var/log/audit. However,
> even I change it back, the auditd cann't be started.
> 
> I looked at the audit.log. It only shows the daemon is closed successfully
> 
> I wonder whether there is other log file I should look.

Its writes failure messages to /var/log/messages.  I sometimes troubleshoot 
issues by starting the daemon by hand in the foreground mode so that 
everything is written to the screen. /sbin/auditd  -f 

-Steve