auditd fails to start on FC6 system, newer kernels effect?

[Steve Grubb]

Hi,

Just a quick update on this in case any one was curious...turns out that the 
audit system was not in his kernel config. Its working now.

-Steve


On Monday 19 November 2007 01:23:25 pm Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 04:31 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings;
> >
> > FC6 system, uptodate, kernel 2.6.24-rc3, but this has existed since I
> > re-enabled selinux in permissive mode just to see what complained.
> >
> > The manpage says to use the -f option for foreground troubleshooting, so
> > here goes:
> >
> > [root at coyote linux-2.6.24-rc3]# man auditd
> > [root at coyote linux-2.6.24-rc3]# which auditd
> > /sbin/auditd
> > [root at coyote linux-2.6.24-rc3]# auditd -f
> > Config file /etc/audit/auditd.conf opened for parsing
> > log_file_parser called with: /var/log/audit/audit.log
> > log_format_parser called with: RAW
> > priority_boost_parser called with: 3
> > flush_parser called with: INCREMENTAL
> > freq_parser called with: 20
> > num_logs_parser called with: 4
> > dispatch_parser called with: /sbin/audispd
> > qos_parser called with: lossy
> > max_log_size_parser called with: 5
> > max_log_size_action_parser called with: ROTATE
> > space_left_parser called with: 75
> > space_action_parser called with: SYSLOG
> > action_mail_acct_parser called with: root
> > admin_space_left_parser called with: 50
> > admin_space_left_action_parser called with: SUSPEND
> > disk_full_action_parser called with: SUSPEND
> > disk_error_action_parser called with: SUSPEND
> > Started dispatcher: /sbin/audispd pid: 7828
> > type=DAEMON_START msg=audit(1195291550.719:1106) auditd start, ver=1.4.2,
> > format=raw, auid=4294967295 pid=7824 res=success, auditd pid=7824
> > config_manager init complete
> > Error setting audit daemon pid (Connection refused)
> > type=DAEMON_ABORT msg=audit(1195291550.720:1107) auditd error halt,
> > auid=4294967295 pid=7824 res=failed, auditd pid=7824
> > Unable to set audit pid, exiting
> > The audit daemon is exiting.
> > Error setting audit daemon pid (Connection refused)
> > [root at coyote linux-2.6.24-rc3]#
> >
> > Connection refused sounds as if something else isn't running that should
> > be, but no direct clue, so what else needs to run too, before auditd?
>
> More of a question for linux-audit (cc'd).  Offhand, I'd guess that the
> ECONNREFUSED is coming from the netlink code, but I don't know why.
> Running it under strace might be illuminating.