<html><body> <tt>>> Lenny: >> >> I was going to move the rotated logs into /home/logs and use "ausearch >> -i -f /home/logs". >> >> >> David Flatley CISSP >> >> >David, > >It won't work like that; exactly the issue I described: > >[root@slim root]# mkdir logs-test >[root@slim root]# cd !$ >cd logs-test >[root@slim logs-test]# auditctl -m "TEST message" >[root@slim logs-test]# service auditd rotate >Rotating logs: [ OK ] >[root@slim logs-test]# cp /var/log/audit/audit.log.1 . >[root@slim logs-test]# ausearch -i -f `pwd` -m USER ><no matches> >[root@slim logs-test]# grep TEST audit.log.1 >node=slim type=USER msg=audit(1250529052.265:305135): user pid=8191 >uid=0 auid=500 ses=4172 subj=user_u:user_r:user_t:s0 msg='TEST message: >exe="/sbin/auditctl" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=pts/18 res=success)' > > >LCB. </tt> <tt> UGH this is a wrench in the works...</tt> <tt> I was hoping to grab all the rotated logs, process them while still allowing audit</tt> <tt>to run with no interruptions. Problem I run into is I run ausearch -i > /tmp/file and then</tt> <tt>do ausearch -i /nfs/file with auditd stopped, then compare files and if they are the same in </tt> <tt>size then delete the /tmp/file. I do this to make sure I get the log in the nfs archive directory </tt> <tt>and the /tmp is a backup if there is a problem. If audit is running there is no way the files will </tt> <tt>be equal in size while processing the /var/log/audit data in two different intervals.</tt> <tt> Thanks for feedback on this Lenny. </tt> David Flatley CISSP <img width="16" height="16" src="cid:1__=0ABBFC86DFCCDE868f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" border="0" alt="Inactive hide details for LC Bruzenak ---08/17/2009 01:16:30 PM---On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 13:06 -0400, David Flatley wrote: > Len">LC Bruzenak ---08/17/2009 01:16:30 PM---On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 13:06 -0400, David Flatley wrote: > Lenny: <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr valign="top"><td width="1%"><img width="96" height="1" src="cid:2__=0ABBFC86DFCCDE868f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" border="0" alt=""> From:</td><td width="100%"><img width="1" height="1" src="cid:2__=0ABBFC86DFCCDE868f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" border="0" alt=""> LC Bruzenak <lenny@magitekltd.com></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="1%"><img width="96" height="1" src="cid:2__=0ABBFC86DFCCDE868f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" border="0" alt=""> To:</td><td width="100%"><img width="1" height="1" src="cid:2__=0ABBFC86DFCCDE868f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" border="0" alt=""> David Flatley/Burlington/IBM@IBMUS</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="1%"><img width="96" height="1" src="cid:2__=0ABBFC86DFCCDE868f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" border="0" alt=""> Cc:</td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><img width="1" height="1" src="cid:2__=0ABBFC86DFCCDE868f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" border="0" alt=""> linux-audit@redhat.com, Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com></td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="1%"><img width="96" height="1" src="cid:2__=0ABBFC86DFCCDE868f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" border="0" alt=""> Date:</td><td width="100%"><img width="1" height="1" src="cid:2__=0ABBFC86DFCCDE868f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" border="0" alt=""> 08/17/2009 01:16 PM</td></tr> <tr valign="top"><td width="1%"><img width="96" height="1" src="cid:2__=0ABBFC86DFCCDE868f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" border="0" alt=""> Subject:</td><td width="100%"><img width="1" height="1" src="cid:2__=0ABBFC86DFCCDE868f9e8a93df938@us.ibm.com" border="0" alt=""> Re: buffer space</td></tr> </table> <hr width="100%" size="2" align="left" noshade style="color:#8091A5; "> <tt> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 13:06 -0400, David Flatley wrote: > Lenny: > > I was going to move the rotated logs into /home/logs and use "ausearch > -i -f /home/logs". > > > David Flatley CISSP > > David, It won't work like that; exactly the issue I described: [root@slim root]# mkdir logs-test [root@slim root]# cd !$ cd logs-test [root@slim logs-test]# auditctl -m "TEST message" [root@slim logs-test]# service auditd rotate Rotating logs: [ OK ] [root@slim logs-test]# cp /var/log/audit/audit.log.1 . [root@slim logs-test]# ausearch -i -f `pwd` -m USER <no matches> [root@slim logs-test]# grep TEST audit.log.1 node=slim type=USER msg=audit(1250529052.265:305135): user pid=8191 uid=0 auid=500 ses=4172 subj=user_u:user_r:user_t:s0 msg='TEST message: exe="/sbin/auditctl" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=pts/18 res=success)' LCB. -- LC (Lenny) Bruzenak lenny@magitekltd.com </tt> </body></html>