Bypassing audit's file watches

[Steve]

Amy Griffis wrote:
> Steve wrote:  [Fri Jul 07 2006, 10:58:42AM EDT]
>> I have found that I can modify files that are being watched and audit 
>> not catch it (ie. no events are dispatched).  When monitoring a file for 
>> all system calls, I can:
>>
>> echo "" > /file/to/watch
>>
>> or
>>
>> cat some_file > /file/to/watch
>>
>> without generating audit events.
 >
> Are you seeing the open and not the write, or no records at all?
> If you are missing events for open() calls, please let us know since
> that would be a bug (versus a lacking feature).

I am not seeing the open() or any other syscall records.

Steve