audit 2.3.6 released

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Wed Apr 23 18:51:45 UTC 2014


On Friday, April 18, 2014 12:08:24 PM Burn Alting wrote:
> Please find attached a patch against 2.3.6 that, when checkpointing,
> notices if we identify an audit.log file to use (ie the dev and inode
> match) but we find a complete event whose time is > 2 seconds past the
> checkpoint time. This should not happen, as the checkpoint event should
> be found BEFORE any other complete event for the checkpoint event was
> the last displayed complete event in the file. When this occurs, a
> message is printed to stderr and ausearch will terminate with an exit
> code of 12.
> 
> This typically occurs if there is a lot of processing or a long time
> occurs between  two invocations of ausearch --checkpoint. Basically, an
> inode is reused in one of the new audit.log files.

Thanks for the patch. Applied as commit 950 with a couple formatting changes.

-Steve




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