file watch and stat

Michael C Thompson thompsmc at us.ibm.com
Mon Oct 2 21:22:17 UTC 2006


Amy Griffis wrote:
> Michael C Thompson wrote:  [Mon Oct 02 2006, 03:16:19PM EDT]
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out why having a watch a on file is not generating 
>> a record when I stat said file.
>>
>> Put a watch on a file, and do stat file.
>>
>> No record... I'm not sure why this is happening, isn't getting such 
>> information considered security relevant?
> 
> What is your audit rule?

auditctl -w /path/to/file

Mike




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