Excluding stat syscall logging for specific path

[Steve Grubb]

On Friday, April 29, 2016 08:56:26 PM Vincas Dargis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When playing/learning with auditd, I wanted to log events when apache fails
> to access file.
> 
> Here's the rules I used in Debian Wheezy (same on Jessie and and current
> latest Testing):
> 
> -a exit,never -F arch=b64 -S stat -F path=/var/www/server-status -k web
> -a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S stat -F uid=www-data -F success=0 -k web
> 
> /var/www/server-status file is non-existant,

Is it a symlink? If it really doesn't exist, then there is no inode to match 
against.


> it's just alias for accessing
> mod_status information ( http://.../server-status path is accessed by munin
> regularly) so I wanted to minimise noise by that exit,never rule.
> 
> But I can't get it work.

What kernel are you using?

-Steve

> I have more in-depth post in Debian forums [1] if that helps, but in short,
> should this work in general?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [1] http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=128092
> 
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