Audit rotate

[David Flatley]

     I have "/sbin/service auditd rotate" in my scripts I use on my Red Hat
systems. But apparently on Suse it does not rotate the logs. When I run the
rotate command it comes back with what it can
do and rotate is not in there. Oh and it is auditd 1.8.0.30-1.


David Flatley CISSP

"To err is human. To really screw up requires the root password." -UNKNOWN





From:	Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com>
To:	David Flatley/Burlington/IBM at IBMUS,
Cc:	linux-audit at redhat.com
Date:	01/08/2015 11:46 AM
Subject:	Re: Audit rotate



On Thursday, January 08, 2015 11:39:17 AM David Flatley wrote:
>     Trying to setup Auditing on a Suse Server 11 SP3 with audit version
> 1.8.0.3. Apparently "audit rotate" is not available on this version of
> auditd? I know from past posts by Steve Grubb that logrotate does not
> work well rotating /var/log/audit/audit.log. So any thoughts on doing
audit
> logrotations?

"service auditd rotate" is simply a convenience for sending SIGUSR1 to
auditd.
That is all you need to do to force rotation of the logs.

-Steve