On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 09:49 -0500, Karl MacMillan wrote: 
> Steve Grubb wrote:
> > ausearch -m all --raw | grep anything you want
> 
> tail -f happens to be my favorite counter example, but I am certain 
> there are other useful tricks for monitoring logs that will break. Not 
> to mention the number of log monitoring and aggregation tools that 
> assume text logs.

 To be fair the new audit dispatcher already has a plugin that does the
same thing as "tail -f" without needing to call stat(), and that'll be
released before auditd has binary logs ... although one could certainly
argue that it's not as obvious, it seems like a small price.

-- 
James Antill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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