creating and inserting audits

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Tue Sep 7 21:17:23 UTC 2010


On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 05:02:21 pm LC Bruzenak wrote:
> > Is it a bad idea to build and then to insert a custom audit/message,
> > or any standard audit, into the audit.log file?
> 
> Nope.

To make sure we don't give conflicting advice, I was thinking he meant writing 
directly to the file (which you should not do). Events must be sent to the 
kernel. But you are free to make your own audit events as long as you mimic 
the existing events.

-Steve




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