Re: [PATCH V2] audit: try harder to send to auditd upon netlink failure

2015-09-09 Thread Paul Moore
On Monday, September 07, 2015 05:10:13 AM Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > There are several reports of the kernel losing contact with auditd when > it is, in fact, still running. When this happens, kernel syslogs show: > "audit: *NO* daemon at audit_pid=" > although auditd is still running, and

[PATCH V2] audit: try harder to send to auditd upon netlink failure

2015-09-07 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
There are several reports of the kernel losing contact with auditd when it is, in fact, still running. When this happens, kernel syslogs show: "audit: *NO* daemon at audit_pid=" although auditd is still running, and is apparently happy, listening on the netlink socket. The pid in the "*NO*