audit-1.7.16 released

LC Bruzenak lenny at magitekltd.com
Wed Nov 18 04:16:35 UTC 2009


On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 9:52 PM, LC Bruzenak <lenny at magitekltd.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Monday 16 November 2009 06:52:24 pm LC Bruzenak wrote:
>>> > You should have daemon start/end events at the aggregator. Are they not
>>> > getting there? Also, the aggregator should have matching
>>> > connect/disconnect events.
>>>
>>> I am not getting the DAEMON_END events. In an orderly shutdown, the
>>> network shuts down before the audit daemon does.
>>
>> OK, I'll take a look to see if things can be reordered to let this event get
>> sent.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>
> Thanks, that would help in the case where the client shuts down normally.
> There is definitely utility in having a positive event come from the
> sender saying it is shutting down.
>
> But if the client gets the power cord yanked out it doesn't help me,
> so I'll still try to add something on the server side to add a local
> audit event as well as the syslog.
>

OK, I see it appears it would work as expected.
I see that the "close_client" gets called on a client timeout, and it
does send a AUDIT_DAEMON_CLOSE event. I will test that ASAP.
I assume a client which just drops off would hit this case.

Thx!
LCB.

-- 
LC (Lenny) Bruzenak




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