"Watch"ing a directory

[Steve Grubb]

On Wednesday 22 August 2007 10:17:37 Pete Briggs wrote:
> Is there any way to put a watch on a directory, 

Sort of...RHEL5.1 will have subtree auditing working in it. Al Viro also sent 
the patch upstream and should land in 2.6.23 or 24.

> so that an audit record will be generated if anyone cd's to that directory. 

Not for cd'ing into a directory. They have to attempt to read, write, change 
an attribute, or execute a file.

> I've tried things like:
>
> -w /etc/audit/ -k ACCESS_AUDIT

That is how you would watch a directory with current audit package and kernel 
with the subtree auditing patch.

> but the rule never seems to get invoked. I'm running FC7 with
> audit-1.5.3

They have to actually do something for it to trip...assuming you have a kernel 
that supports it.

-Steve