[Patch]Fix the error in the output of "auditctl -s" when auditd is stoped

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Thu Aug 7 21:01:33 UTC 2008


On Thursday 07 August 2008 00:50:45 Chu Li wrote:
>   When auditd is stoped, "auditctl -s" will show "pid=0". I think it's not
> correct information. It's better to tell users "auditd not started".

At the moment, I don't want to change this behavior. In about a month, I think 
we can make updates that change the external behavior. If you want, we can 
document this better in man pages that audit pid of 0 means its not running.

Thanks,
-Steve




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