auditctl exit code

Steve Grubb sgrubb at redhat.com
Tue May 15 00:03:27 UTC 2012


On Friday, May 11, 2012 10:34:52 AM Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Friday, May 11, 2012 08:20:06 AM Stephen Quinney wrote:
> > I am using Linux Audit version 2.1.3 and I'm wondering if the
> > following behaviour of auditctl is intentional.
> 
> No. I think its a bug in the code.

This should fix it:
https://fedorahosted.org/audit/changeset/694

-Steve


> > When I do a complete
> > list of the current rules (with auditctl -l) I get an exit code of
> > zero, as expected. When I do a list which is restricted to a
> > particular key (auditctl -l -k foo) I get 255. It doesn't matter which
> > of my keys I use and there are no error messages sent to stderr to
> > indicate a problem. The auditctl manpage doesn't say what various exit
> > values mean so I'm not sure what type of error is occurring.




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