Audit daemon going to single user mode
Klaus Weidner
klaus at atsec.com
Wed Apr 13 23:54:17 UTC 2005
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 06:59:52PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> When the audit daemon goes to single user mode due to hitting a limit that
> causes the action to be performed. Is the audit daemon supposed to stay alive
> or should it quit? As of right now, it quits because the init scripts doesn't
> have it in the single user run level setting.
I think auditd quitting is appropriate. The typical reason for the switch
to single user mode would be a fatal failure in the audit system (such as
out of disk space), so it's unlikely to be able to do anything useful
when continuing.
-Klaus
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