Streaming auditd information to syslog

Bailey, Edward ebailey at transunion.com
Wed Jan 10 20:04:33 UTC 2007


 I thought about that. Auditd is a high volume tool - calling logger for
every message seems awfully expensive resource wise.

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> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Serge Dubrouski
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 3:01 PM
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> Subject: Re: Streaming auditd information to syslog
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> It looks like it can be a simple script calling logger tool.
> 
> man logger.
> 
> On 1/10/07, Bailey, Edward <ebailey at transunion.com> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I am looking into streaming auditd information to a central syslog 
> > server. I see a place in the audit.conf config file to make this 
> > happen, but I can can't get it to work and I am hoping 
> someone else knows how.
> >
> > In audit.conf
> >
> > # Alternative output
> > output {
> >        mode            = stream;
> >        command         = "/usr/local/sbin/send_to_syslog"
> > };
> >
> > This seems to be where output is directed to syslog, but what is 
> > "/usr/local/sbin/send_to_syslog"?
> >
> > Does anyone know? I can't find an answer.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ed
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