audit rotate question

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Wed May 20 19:29:11 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 20 May 2009 02:37:01 pm LC Bruzenak wrote:
> How can I tell when the rotate is complete so I can move the files out?

Use ls -i /var/log/audit/audit.log and watch for the inode to change. Read it 
first, rotate, and then read again. If you don't see progress after a certain 
amount of time, you might want to check syslog for problems.

-Steve




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