Re: stopping "chatter"

2007-11-02 Thread Steve Grubb
On Friday 02 November 2007 04:30:33 pm Greg Hennessy wrote: > 136065  /var/run/utmp > > What would be the proper syntax to get auditctl to > ignore the open attempts to /var/run/utmp? The audit system would not normally record access to that file unless it was told to. Do you see a rule that is w

stopping "chatter"

2007-11-02 Thread Greg Hennessy
I need to configure auditing for certification reasons, but I'd like to cut down on wasted disk space by ignoring known "chatter". On a newly installed Redhat 5 workstation there seems to be an open of /var/run/utmp every 10 seconds, which fills the log files. I'd like to ignore these, but my fir

Re: log messages

2007-11-02 Thread Steve Grubb
On Friday 02 November 2007 01:51:54 pm Bill Tangren wrote: > > Nov 2 10:27:25 charon kernel: audit(1194013645.793:6808): auid=500 > removed an audit rule > > What does this mean? It means that the user logged in under acct 500 either deleted an audit rule by hand or ran a script that did. On shu

log messages

2007-11-02 Thread Bill Tangren
When I restart my auditd daemon, I get a number of messages in /var/log/messages that look like this: Nov 2 10:27:25 charon kernel: audit(1194013645.793:6808): auid=500 removed an audit rule What does this mean? Does it mean that some of my rules in /etc/audit.rules are improper, and the serve

Re: aureport output

2007-11-02 Thread Steve Grubb
On Friday 02 November 2007 12:21:26 pm Bill Tangren wrote: > Event Report > === > # date time event type auid > === > 1. 11/01/2007 12:00:00 AM 5844794 SYSCALL -1 The event report is to give you an idea about the distribution of events occurring on

learning aureport

2007-11-02 Thread Bill Tangren
I am running audit-1.0.15-3.EL4 on a RHEL ES 4 system, fully patched. I am trying to learn the meaning of the output of aureport. For example, if I want to look at failed events, could you tell me what the following means? That is, how do I know from this what is failing, and why? [EMAIL PROTEC

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2007-11-02 Thread Bill Tangren
I am running audit-1.0.15-3.EL4 on a RHEL ES 4 system, fully patched. I am trying to learn the meaning of the output of aureport. For example, if I want to look at failed events, could you tell me what the following means? That is, how do I know from this what is failing, and why? [EMAIL PROTECT