buffer space

[David Flatley]

>> Lenny:
>>
>> I was going to move the rotated logs into /home/logs and use "ausearch
>> -i -f /home/logs".
>>
>>
>> David Flatley CISSP
>>
>>

>David,
>
>It won't work like that; exactly the issue I described:
>
>[root at slim root]# mkdir logs-test
>[root at slim root]# cd !$
>cd logs-test
>[root at slim logs-test]# auditctl -m "TEST message"
>[root at slim logs-test]# service auditd rotate
>Rotating logs:                                             [  OK  ]
>[root at slim logs-test]# cp /var/log/audit/audit.log.1 .
>[root at slim logs-test]# ausearch -i -f `pwd` -m USER
><no matches>
>[root at slim logs-test]# grep TEST audit.log.1
>node=slim type=USER msg=audit(1250529052.265:305135): user pid=8191
>uid=0 auid=500 ses=4172 subj=user_u:user_r:user_t:s0 msg='TEST message:
>exe="/sbin/auditctl" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=pts/18 res=success)'
>
>
>LCB.

  UGH this is a wrench in the works...
  I was hoping to grab all the rotated logs, process them while still
allowing audit
to run with no interruptions. Problem I run into is I run ausearch -i
> /tmp/file and then
do ausearch -i /nfs/file with auditd stopped, then compare files and if
they are the same in
size then delete the /tmp/file. I do this to make sure I get the log in the
nfs archive directory
and the /tmp is a backup if there is a problem. If audit is running there
is no way the files will
be equal in size while processing the /var/log/audit data in two different
intervals.

  Thanks for feedback on this Lenny.


David Flatley CISSP




                                                                                                                                                 
  From:       LC Bruzenak <lenny at magitekltd.com>                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                 
  To:         David Flatley/Burlington/IBM at IBMUS                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                                 
  Cc:         linux-audit at redhat.com, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com>                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                 
  Date:       08/17/2009 01:16 PM                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                 
  Subject:    Re: buffer space                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                 






On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 13:06 -0400, David Flatley wrote:
> Lenny:
>
> I was going to move the rotated logs into /home/logs and use "ausearch
> -i -f /home/logs".
>
>
> David Flatley CISSP
>
>

David,

It won't work like that; exactly the issue I described:

[root at slim root]# mkdir logs-test
[root at slim root]# cd !$
cd logs-test
[root at slim logs-test]# auditctl -m "TEST message"
[root at slim logs-test]# service auditd rotate
Rotating logs:                                             [  OK  ]
[root at slim logs-test]# cp /var/log/audit/audit.log.1 .
[root at slim logs-test]# ausearch -i -f `pwd` -m USER
<no matches>
[root at slim logs-test]# grep TEST audit.log.1
node=slim type=USER msg=audit(1250529052.265:305135): user pid=8191
uid=0 auid=500 ses=4172 subj=user_u:user_r:user_t:s0 msg='TEST message:
exe="/sbin/auditctl" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=pts/18 res=success)'


LCB.

--
LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
lenny at magitekltd.com


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