Double addition of rule yields two log messages

[Steve Grubb]

On Friday 19 May 2006 11:21, Michael C Thompson wrote:
> Adding a rule successfully (i.e. not malformed and that rule didn't
> already exist) creates a log entry:
> type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1147986115.721:28510): auid=0
> subj=root:staff_r:staff_t:s0-s15:c0.c255 add rule to list=2 res=0

This one is a failure. res=0. (I suspect you copied the wrong one.)

> Then, adding the same rule again will resulting in an error message
> being reported to the user saying that rule exists (although it uses the
> work "File exists", which if that could be changed to "Rule exists",
> might be nice).

I'll fix that.

> However, despite this apparent failure, we get a log entry: 
> type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1147986117.389:28511): auid=0
> subj=root:staff_r:staff_t:s0-s15:c0.c255 add rule to list=2 res=0

This is reporting that an attempt was made to add a rule and it failed. When 
you add a rule and it succeeds, res=1.

-Steve