<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none"></style> </head> <body dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;background-color:#FFFFFF;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Please forgive me, I assume this has already been addressed in the mail archive but I've been unable to locate a related thread. Can someone tell me why the default for auditd is O_NOFOLLOW for accessing auditd configuration files? I assume there is a reason for not supporting links as the default that is important enough to justify the extra work to add the -l option but it is not clear to me. Thanks, Tom Hall Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. </body> </html>