Output of aureport in columns

[Steve Grubb]

On Thursday, July 12, 2012 04:26:25 PM Michael Mather wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have managed to find an easy way to put the output of aureport into
> neat columns. For example:
> 
> aureport -i -f | sed 's/=====/==== /g' | column -t
> 
> However, if I combine this with ausearch, as in:
> 
> ausearch -k ROOT |aureport -i -f | sed .....

Is this really the ausearch portion or did you omit some parameters for 
brevity?


> then some lines come out properly and some have extra data that shifts
> everything off. For example, here are two successive lines from the
> output. The first has 9 fields and the second 15:
> 
> 311. 12-07-12 16:21:03 /proc/self/loginuid open yes /usr/bin/sudo mm 597
> 312. 12-07-12 16:21:03 (null) inode=970 dev=08:01 mode=0100755 ouid=0
> ogid=0 rdev=00:00 execve yes /sbin/aureport root 599
> 
> What is happening?

Does it behave better if you add --raw to the ausearch portion?

-Steve