Duplicate settings?

[Leam Hall]

On 1/20/20 9:37 AM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Monday, January 20, 2020 9:24:56 AM EST Leam Hall wrote:
>> If /etc/audit/auditd.conf encounters conflicting duplicate settings,
>> what happens? Takes the first, takes the last, or what? For example:
>>
>> 	space_left = 25
>> 	space_left = 100
> 
> It overwrites the first value with the second one. You can also run:
> 
> # service auditd state
> 
> to see what the current value is if your audit daemon is somewhat recent.
> 
> -Steve

Hey Steve, a follow up. Is the man page for auditd.conf wrong? My auditd 
failed to start when giving space_left with a '%' sign.

  space_left
     This is a numeric value in megabytes that tells the audit daemon
     when  to  perform  a  configurable  action because the system is
     starting to run low on disk space. You may also append a percent
     sign  (e.g. 5%) to the number to have the audit daemon calculate
     the number based on the disk partition size.


Thanks!

Leam