Duplicate settings?

[Leam Hall]

On 1/20/20 10:28 AM, Steve Grubb wrote:
> 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.

Ah, gotcha! I was using a rebuildable VM for testing, and hadn't 
updated. Thanks!

Leam