Sucess or failure?

Peter Moody pmoody at google.com
Sun Jul 22 02:34:20 UTC 2012


On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Michael Mather
<michael.mather at teksavvy.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I enter the command "sudo cp qwerty /etc/xxx"
> and get the reply:  "cp: cannot stat `qwerty': No such file or directory."
>
> A number of log entries are written. The last two are, in part:
>
> type=SYSCALL success=yes
> type=EXECVE  argc=3 a0="cp" a1="qwerty" a2="/etc/xxx"
>
> My problem is with "success=yes".

What's the actual syscall and what's the actual rule that triggering the entry?

>
> What is happening?
>
> Thanks - Michael Mather
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