spurious \n in session id helper [was: Re: user message limits]

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Wed Sep 18 15:10:47 UTC 2013


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:25:57AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 10:25:23 PM Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 02:10:19PM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > > and then session information:
> > > audit_log_format(ab, " auid=%u ses=%u\n", auid, sessionid);
> > > which is 32 characters...but I don't know why the \n is in there. That
> > > should probably be deleted!!
> > 
> > That is unexpected...  added in 4d3fb709 when the session id was
> > refactored (by eparis at localhost.localdomain nonetheless!).  auditd seems
> > to be doing the right thing when writing out /var/log/audit/audit.log
> > though.
> 
> Please drop the '\n' as I mentioned above. It doesn't belong there and wastes 
> room in the audit trail. Auditd strips all '\n' and it would run faster if it 
> didn't have to strip it out.

Yup, I'll do that...

> -Steve

- RGB

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