Auditing network traffic

[Steve Grubb]

On Thursday, January 21, 2016 10:49:37 PM Lev Stipakov wrote:
> Sorry, I probably was not clear here. I am able to catch packets by
> adding iptables rules like ones you've mentioned and process events
> (with record type AUDIT_NETFILTER_PKT) by code inside my plugin.
> 
> The problem is, I would prefer them not to be written to logfiles. My
> business logic does not require that (everything is handled by plugin
> code), and I noticed that logs are rotated quite fast (I capture all
> incoming/outgoing packets). So, is there any way to disable logging and
> make audit deliver those events to plugin only?

In /etc/audit/auditd.conf make log_firmat like this:

log_format = NOLOG

and auditd will not log anything to disk.

-Steve