space_left_action=exec only works once?

[Bond Masuda]

Thanks Steve for the suggestion. Unfortunately, even with my script 
sending USR2 to auditd, i still get the same behavior where the 
space_left_action=exec call to the script only happens once.

Thoughts?
Bond


On 01/25/2017 10:22 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 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