Occasional delayed output of events

[Burn Alting]

On Mon, 2021-01-25 at 18:53 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Saturday, January 23, 2021 5:55:44 PM EST Burn Alting wrote:
> > > > How is the following for a way forward.
> > > > a. I will author a patch to the user space code to correctly parse this
> > > > condition and submit it on the weekend. It will be via a new
> > > > configuration item to auditd.conf just in case placing a fixed
> > > > extended timeout (15-20 secs) affects memory usage for users of the
> > > > auparse library. This solves the initial problem of ausearch/auparse
> > > > failing to parse generated audit.b. I am happy to instrument what ever
> > > > is recommended on my hosts at home (vm's and bare metal) to provide
> > > > more information, should we want to 'explain' the occurrence, given I
> > > > see this every week or two and report back.
> > > 
> > > Seems reasonable to me.
> > 
> > I can implement the 'end_of_event_timeout' change either as
> > i. a command line argument to ausearch/aureport (say --eoetmo secs) and a
> > new pair of library functions within the  auparse() stable (say
> > auparse_set_eoe_timeout() and auparse_get_eoe_timeout())
> > or
> > ii. a configuration item in /etc/audit/auditd.conf, or
> > 
> > 
> > Which is your preference? Mine is i. as this is a user space processing
> > change, not a demon change.
> 
> To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what we're seeing. I run some tests today 
> on my system. It's seeing issues also. I'd still like to treat the root cause 
> of this. But we do need to change the default. That I what I'm trying to 
> figure out.
> 
> Back to your question, I'm wondering if we should do both? A changeable 
> default in auditd.conf and an override on the command line.

So far, all items in /etc/audit/auditd.conf appear to only affect the daemon. Is
this the right location to start adding non-daemon configuration items? (I accept
there is no other place).

Happy to do both, if required.

> -Steve
> 
> 
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