Output of aureport in columns

Michael Mather michael.mather at teksavvy.com
Fri Jul 13 17:09:00 UTC 2012


Yes, Steve, adding --raw works beautifully. Thanks.

Now, where can I find a tutorial that might have taught me this?

And is there a way to search this list?

Michael Mather
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On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 09:22 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 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





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