kauditd is writing too many lines in syslog

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Mon Jan 20 18:24:50 UTC 2014


On 14/01/20, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:36:27 -0500
> Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Can I ask kauditd not print anything if user space program cannot
> > > handle that much message?  
> > 
> > Sure, on the kernel boot line you can set audit=0 to disable kaudit,
> > or you can tell the init system to not start auditd.
> 
> what if someone never wants events to go to syslog?

Then we need to add a new feature to kaudit to stop them.

This also begs the question of what happens to AUDIT_USER_AVC
messages...  This patchwork is messy.

> -Steve

- RGB

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