buffer space

[Norman Mark St. Laurent]

Depending if you are using logrotate.d/audit  and how it numbers the 
files as it rotates... 

audit.log.1.gz
audit.log.2.gz
...
audit.log.89.gz
audit.log.90.gz

The sort below will but the list in exact order....

zcat `ls /var/log/audit/*.gz | sort -t. --key=3,2n` | ausearch -i

Thank u Steve...

Norman Mark St. Laurent
Conceras | Chief Technology Officer and ISSE

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LC Bruzenak wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 14:01 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
>   
>>> 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
>>     
>
> Told you so!
> :)
>
> LCB.
>
>