On Monday 17 August 2009 01:46:03 pm LC Bruzenak wrote: > > UGH this is a wrench in the works... > > I was hoping to grab all the rotated logs, process them while still > > allowing audit > > to run with no interruptions. Problem I run into is I run ausearch -i > > > > > /tmp/file and then > > > > do ausearch -i /nfs/file with auditd stopped, then compare files and > > if they are the same in > > size then delete the /tmp/file. I do this to make sure I get the log > > in the nfs archive directory > > and the /tmp is a backup if there is a problem. If audit is running > > there is no way the files will > > be equal in size while processing the /var/log/audit data in two > > different intervals. > > It's a problem for me too. > I was thinking about just patching the ausearch code to behave as > desired...but hoping Steve beat me to it so there was a greatly reduced > chance of bad code...
#cat `ls /var/log/audit/a* | sort -r` | ausearch -i #cat `ls /var/log/audit/a* | sort -r` | aureport cat can open more than one file at a time, -Steve -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
