augenrules: -F missing operation for -k

[Steve Grubb]

Hello,

On Thursday, May 20, 2021 12:08:56 PM EDT Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Thursday, May 20, 2021 10:56:00 AM EDT warron.french wrote:
> > Does anybody know what this error means?
> > augenrules: -F missing operation for -k
> > 
> > I cannot figure out what rule is causing this, so I need a little
> > more context to figure out what to look for in my *.rules files under
> > /etc/audit/rules.d.
> 
> It means there is no value associated with a -F name=value construct.

Actually, I misspoke. In the name=vale portion, it didn't find the '=' where 
one was expected. Since it mentions '-k', you might be mixing watch syntax 
with syscall syntax.  -k keyname is valid with watches.  For syscalls its -F 
key=keyname.

-Steve

> I am thinking syslog should have the line number in the rules where this
> comes from.  Do you a -k some where that doesn't look right?