audit a process that disappears

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Tue Nov 9 17:47:05 UTC 2010


On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 08:25:07 am ESGLinux wrote:
> it´s like anybody outside the process gives a kill to it.

There are 2 other possibilities and that is that it terminates abnormally or that it 
"ends".

 
> My question is with audit rules I can get any information about what is
> happening with this process.
> 
> something like this:
> 
> -a entry,always -F pid=32179 -S all -k TOMCAT_JAVA
> 
> (pid=32179 is the pid of the process)

You should be able to get something. You would probably just need the "kill", "exit", 
and "exit_group" syscalls.

-Steve




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