missing avc message field names

Karl MacMillan kmacmillan at mentalrootkit.com
Wed Jan 31 00:50:52 UTC 2007


James Antill wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 09:49 -0500, Karl MacMillan wrote: 
>> Steve Grubb wrote:
>>> ausearch -m all --raw | grep anything you want
>> tail -f happens to be my favorite counter example, but I am certain 
>> there are other useful tricks for monitoring logs that will break. Not 
>> to mention the number of log monitoring and aggregation tools that 
>> assume text logs.
> 
>  To be fair the new audit dispatcher already has a plugin that does the
> same thing as "tail -f" without needing to call stat(), and that'll be
> released before auditd has binary logs ... although one could certainly
> argue that it's not as obvious, it seems like a small price.
> 

So you will have that wheel reinvented soon - that still leaves many, 
many more that you have no control over.

Karl




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