Duplicate settings?

[Steve Grubb]

On Monday, January 20, 2020 10:19:59 AM EST Leam Hall wrote:
> On 1/20/20 10:14 AM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> > On Monday, January 20, 2020 10:04:24 AM EST Leam Hall wrote:
> >> 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.
> >> 
> >> 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.
> > 
> > Usually it writes the reason why in syslog. Does it say anything there?
> 
> I don't grok systemd, so here's the whole response:
> 
> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status auditd.service
> ● auditd.service - Security Auditing Service
>     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/auditd.service; enabled;
> vendor preset: enabled)
>     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2020-01-20 09:27:37
> EST; 19min ago
>       Docs: man:auditd(8)
>             https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-documentation
>    Process: 2695 ExecStart=/sbin/auditd (code=exited, status=6)
> 
> Jan 20 09:27:36 leam_c7 systemd[1]: Starting Security Auditing Service...
> Jan 20 09:27:37 leam_c7 auditd[2695]: Value 25% should only be numbers -
> line 20

The issue is here ^^^  To use percentages, you have to be on 2.8.5 or later.

-Steve