Changes to Audit record format

Loulwa Salem loulwas at us.ibm.com
Wed Mar 15 19:45:14 UTC 2006


John D. Ramsdell wrote:
>>	All two word fields should have an "_" between the words
>>rather than a space (since we use the space as a delimeter which makes
>>the most sense, we end up with lonely words that need to be ignored
>>currently). Using "_" would make life easier instead.
> 
> 
> I'm confused.  Are you talking about ausearch output, or about the
> names that will be returned by the parsing libraries functions?  If
> it's the ausearch output, records of type SOCKADDR fail to meet your
> parsing requirements.  It's as if colon becomes the name/value pair
> separator.
> 

Currently we have our own parser that reads records directly from 
/var/log/audit/audit.log and that's what I am referring to. I am talking 
about the way the audit record is printed to the audit log not the 
ausearch output.

thanks,
- Loulwa




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