Audit messages on console

Timothy R. Chavez tim.chavez at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Aug 3 19:08:12 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 13:54 -0500, Timothy R. Chavez wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 13:26 -0500, Ameel Kamboh wrote:
> > I notice that if the auditd service is not running, 
> > I see all my audit logs go out on the console, 
> > When I start auditd service they go to the appropriate log file. 
> > Is there a way to turn this off in the kernel?
> > 
> 
> Hi Ameel,
> 
> If audit is enabled, but auditd isn't running, the audit records will be
> delivered to userspace via printk (KERN_NOTICE <5>).  So perhaps you'll
> just need to edit /etc/sysconfig and route kern.5 accordingly?  If you

Erm, /etc/syslog.conf

-tim




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