audit without python?

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Tue Oct 25 18:09:43 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 01:51:09 PM Jason wrote:
> Thanks for your reply Steve.  Our plan then is to install python on our
> development platform and compile audit with python support so we don't
> have to hack Makefiles.

I almost am done with hacking the makefiles. Just need to fix one thing in auparse/test 
and I'll put it in svn.

> Then we will install audit on our network appliance which does not have python.  Do
> you foresee any issues with doing it this way?  What functionality do we lose by not 
including python?

semanage, I think the selinux troubleshooter, and the audit log viewer are the only 
things I know of that uses the python bindings.

-Steve




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