augenrules: -F missing operation for -k

warron.french warron.french at gmail.com
Wed May 26 13:41:33 UTC 2021


Steve, thanks.  I am finally back in my environment looking for the
problem-syntax based on your feedback.  I found nothing that matches "key=
<space>" or "-k <space>".

I don't see the error anymore.  Perhaps a coworker addressed it.

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Warron French



On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 2:38 PM Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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?
>
>
>
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