Streaming auditd information to syslog

[Serge Dubrouski]

Per description of streaming mode logger sounds like a right tool. But
I'm totally agree with you it would be too expensive:

Streaming Mode
       Streaming mode is pretty much like file mode, except that data is  sent
       to  an external command on standard input. This allows forwarding audit
       data to other hosts via arbitrary mechanisms (including  stunnel,  ssh,
       etc).

But it looks like there is another way to achieve kind of the same
result by configuring actions:

Actions:

Actions to be performed in response to an output error, or a disk
usage problem, can be defined as follows:

action name {
        type = ...;
        data...
};

The value of type specifies what sort of action to perform; data
contains additional information for the particular type of action.

....

syslog
    will log a message to the system log, using the log facility and
priority specified by the facility and priority variable.


On 1/10/07, Bailey, Edward <ebailey at transunion.com> wrote:
>  I thought about that. Auditd is a high volume tool - calling logger for
> every message seems awfully expensive resource wise.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Serge Dubrouski
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:01 PM
> > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> > Subject: Re: Streaming auditd information to syslog
> >
> > It looks like it can be a simple script calling logger tool.
> >
> > man logger.
> >
> > On 1/10/07, Bailey, Edward <ebailey at transunion.com> wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I am looking into streaming auditd information to a central syslog
> > > server. I see a place in the audit.conf config file to make this
> > > happen, but I can can't get it to work and I am hoping
> > someone else knows how.
> > >
> > > In audit.conf
> > >
> > > # Alternative output
> > > output {
> > >        mode            = stream;
> > >        command         = "/usr/local/sbin/send_to_syslog"
> > > };
> > >
> > > This seems to be where output is directed to syslog, but what is
> > > "/usr/local/sbin/send_to_syslog"?
> > >
> > > Does anyone know? I can't find an answer.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Ed
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