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[Norman Mark St. Laurent]

cat --> zcat  for the gzip files...  THANKS Steve...  Very Nice....

Norman Mark St. Laurent
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Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Monday 17 August 2009 01:46:03 pm LC Bruzenak wrote:
>   
>>>   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.
>>>       
>> It's a problem for me too.
>> I was thinking about just patching the ausearch code to behave as
>> desired...but hoping Steve beat me to it so there was a greatly reduced
>> chance of bad code...
>>     
>
> #cat `ls /var/log/audit/a* | sort -r` | ausearch -i
> #cat `ls /var/log/audit/a* | sort -r` | aureport
>
> cat can open more than one file at a time,
>
> -Steve
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