kauditd is writing too many lines in syslog

Aaron Lewis the.warl0ck.1989 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 20 05:11:24 UTC 2014


It's still printing logs even I set all printk parameters to zeros:

cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk
0       0       0       0

P.S I'm running kernel 2.6.32

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Aaron Lewis
<the.warl0ck.1989 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the default behavior,
>
> I'm using audit 2.3.2, and I've configured auditd not to log anything
> (NOLOG option), and I set the queue buffer to 10240 messages.
>
> When the buffer is full or auditd is suddenly killed or for some other
> reason, it seems to write a lot of things to dmesg or
> /var/log/messages
>
> So, did kauditd wrote all these? I already killed auditd process but I
> can still see logs piling up.
>
> Can I ask kauditd not print anything if user space program cannot
> handle that much message?
>
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