Upgrading audit package

[Steve Grubb]

Hello,

On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 5:38:38 AM EDT Bhagwat, Shriniketan Manjunath 
wrote:
> As requested in my previous email, I am interested in understanding the
> relation between Linux audit kernel and user space audit. Will a audit
> kernel available with Linux kernel 2.6.32 compatible with user space audit
> 2.6.X? I understand you might be busy with your regular schedules. :-)

To some extent, yes they are compatible. How much? I don't know. I have never 
tried that combination because they were never meant to run together.

-Steve


> From: Bhagwat, Shriniketan Manjunath
> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2016 1:48 PM
> To: 'Steve Grubb' <sgrubb at redhat.com>
> Cc: linux-audit at redhat.com
> Subject: Upgrading audit package
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> I am using audit in my development environment. My development environment
> is as below.
> 
> RHEL 5.2 with kernel 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 and audit-2.2-2.el6.x86_64.
> SUSE 11 SP3 with kernel 3.0.76-0.11-default and audit-1.8-0.30.1
> 
> As I understand the above audit packages I am using in my environment are
> user space audit. I want to upgrade it to the latest version. If I upgrade
> the audit packages to latest version 2.6.X will there be any issues? Linux
> Audit kernel available with kernel 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 and 3.0.76-0.11
> are compatible with user space audit 2.6.X? In your opinion what is the
> suitable audit package for my environment to upgrade? If these topics are
> already documented please guide me to the documentation.
> 
> Regards,
> Ketan