audit-1.7.16 released

LC Bruzenak lenny at magitekltd.com
Mon Oct 26 14:46:33 UTC 2009


On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 11:55 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just released a new version of the audit daemon. It can be downloaded 
> from http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit. It will also be in rawhide  
> soon. The ChangeLog is:
> 
> - If audisp-remote plugin has a queue at exit, use non-zero exit code
> - In auditd, tell libev to stop processing a connection when idle timeout
> - In auditd, tell libev to stop processing a connection when shutting down
> 
> This release fixes a bug introduced in the 1.7.15 release. The main problem was 
> that the idle timeout was not telling libev to stop processing the associated 
> socket when it closed an idle connection. Subsequent reconnects would go into 
> an error state and libev would immediately close the new connection. This 
> update fixes that problem. I also applied a patch from trunk that checks the 
> queue size on exit of audisp-remote to decide if it was successful or not.
> 
> Please let me know if you run across any problems with this release.
> 
> -Steve

Is there any indication that this event has happened being logged?
The man page indicates it might be ("...before auditd complains").

Thx,
LCB.

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LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
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