audit.log with logrotate on CentOS
Warron S French
warron.s.french at aero.org
Thu May 26 17:30:41 UTC 2016
Hi Ed, thanks for your input. You have basically confirmed my suspicion. Apparently I failed to mention (I asked to this forum yesterday the same question and never saw a response even that my post made it) that I am asking in the CentOS Forums as well.
Currently there is no direction from the CentOS Forums; but they have engaged my question and attempted to start looking into this issue. Someone mentioned that there is a known bug for logrotate in CentOS-6.7, and of course that the version that I am running.
I am liking your approach to the solution a little more though. Maybe set max_log_file to 4096 in /etc/audit/auditd.conf and then run a script that looks for all...
/var/log/audit/audit.log files not already ending in .bz2 already.
Warron French, MBA, SCSA
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From: linux-audit-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:linux-audit-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ed Christiansen MS
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 12:02 PM
To: linux-audit at redhat.com
Subject: Re: audit.log with logrotate on CentOS
probably the easiest way to do that is:
1. remove logrotate from /etc/cron.daily and put into root crontab:
1 0 * * 1 /usr/bin/logrotate
2. write a script that implements the other logic and run it from root cron a few minutes later.
I'd run a few tests with the logrotate to see how long it actually takes, but that's because I can be a little extra paranoid.
There really isn't a way to ensure that you always get less than 4GB if you rotate weekly. You can approximate this with this: maxsize 4G, which will rotate when the logfile reaches 4GB.
On 5/26/2016 11:29 AM, Warron S French wrote:
> Hello, I am using CentOS-6.7 and I have implemented the audispatch
> configurations and they are working pretty nicely.
>
> One of the requirements I have to satisfy, somehow, is 7 years
> retention of logdata. That is an enormous amount of data to store on
> /var/log/audit filesystem - even for a single server and 6
> workstations combined. I have a 2.0TB sized filesystem in place
> already - but it won't be enough to satisfy the retention of 7 years of data.
>
> So, my plan is a tiered approach to managing the log files if someone
> could please advise on how best to implement the following:
>
> Rotate log files every single Monday morning at 12:01am.
>
> When I rotate them place the dateext extension (for example
> *20160523*) to indicate all date is up to that date extension.
>
> When I rotate them, I also want to bzip2 compress them (I have the
> binaries on the server).
>
> Only keep at most 15 of those rotated (date-string extension applied)
> compressed files so that I can once a month take over a DVD burner and
> burn the files to DvD; however, I want to ensure that the files never
> grow any larger than the size of a normal (*not dual-layer*) DvD media
> which is typically 4.70GB (so I am estimating a 4.0GB limitation) that
> is after rotation and compression.
>
> Can someone help me figure out how to most appropriately (and more
> importantly) and successfully implement this configuration?
>
> *Warron French, MBA, SCSA*
>
>
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