Events lost with dispatcher

Matthew Booth mbooth at redhat.com
Wed Apr 7 12:44:08 UTC 2010


On 31/03/10 20:56, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Wait, you are writing a dispatcher...are you boosting your priority above 
> auditd? If not, you should probably increase it by at least 4. Your dispatcher 
> has to stay ahead of auditd.

On a related note, has there been any more thought about loading
dispatchers into auditd itself as dynamic libraries? This would solve
this problem, and also the issue of accidentally writing a rule which is
triggered by a dispatcher, causing a DOS.

Matt
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