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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> I have audit logging working exactly as I want it now (thanks to you all), but when running ausearch on various systems (not all, which tells me something isn’t consistent) I get a warning:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Warning – freq is non-zero and incremental flushing not selected.</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I saw on the internet a post that (involved you Steve Grubb) in reply to someone else from Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:01:37 -0400<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here is the part of the thread where you replied Steve:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">From</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">: Steve Grubb <sgrubb redhat com><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">To</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">: Linda Knippers <linda knippers hp com><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Cc</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">: linux-audit redhat com<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Subject</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">: Re: Double addition of rule yields two log messages<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">Date</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console"">: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:01:37 -0400<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black">On Friday 19 May 2006 14:47, Linda Knippers wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black">> But why does ausearch care?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black">Ausearch doesn't care about this particular setting. Its looking at the config
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black">to find the log files. The parser is what cares and it is what emitted this
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black">warning. As such, you can use ausearch to make sure your config is sane
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black">before sending sighup to reconfigure the audit daemon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black">> Seems like if anything cared it would be the auditd but I can't find an<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black">> error or warning from it anywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black">Should be in the syslog.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Console";color:black">-Steve<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The question I have is, even this says “Warning” does it mean there is something I really need to be intensely looking into to prevent issues to come?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I do not fully understand the impact of what the <i>flush</i> parameter. I am also trying to comply with a STIG as well; I think that’s what has caused this message to be presented.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-family:"Helv",sans-serif;color:navy">Warron French, MBA, SCSA<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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