space_left_action=exec only works once?

[Steve Grubb]

Hello,

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:06:50 -0800
Bond Masuda <bond.masuda at jlbond.com> wrote:
> I configured space_left and space_left_action to run a script that 
> compresses and moves older audit log files from /var/log/audit. It 
> appears to work 1 time, and then doesn't work anymore until I kill
> the auditd daemon and start it again.
> 
> Is this expected and/or desired behavior? I didn't see anything in
> the man pages about this behavior. I was hoping to have my script run
> every time the space_left threshold is hit so as to not run out of
> logging disk space. Is there something I can do to accomplish this?

You may need to send SIGUSR2 to `pidof auditd` to reset the internal
counters. Let me know if that does not fix it.

-Steve