What's the difference between -F dir=XX and -w?

[Bryan Harris]

Hi Aaron,

On Jan 3, 2014, at 12:30 AM, Aaron Lewis <the.warl0ck.1989 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What's the difference between -F dir=XX and -w?
> 
> -a exit,always -F arch=b64 -S open -F success=1 -F dir=/secure
> 
> versus
> 
> -w /secure
> 
I'm new to audit but I did a search and after a while found an old thread.  I think -w /path is essentially expanded to be -F dir=/path rule except they don't put the -F arch=b64.  I guess architecture may not matter for open() but that's just a guess.

Here it is,
https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2013-September/msg00057.html

V/r,
Bryan