Audit rotate

[David Flatley]

      Yup that did it! Thanks Steve.


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 12:30 PM
Subject:	Re: Audit rotate



On Thursday, January 08, 2015 12:17:40 PM David Flatley wrote:
>      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.

What I'm trying to say is that if the init script does not support it, then

all you need to do is send sigusr1 to auditd instead. Something like:

kill -USR1 `pidof auditd`

-Steve



> 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