Re: audit log not being rotated

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On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:24:33PM -0400, Mike Williams wrote:
> Hi there.  I have three systems running f13 and on one of those systems
> audit.log has not been rotated since July 20 when the system was first
> brought up with f13.
> 
> After some digging I found a reference to a file that can be run as a cron
> job to cause the log file to be rotated.
> (/usr/share/doc/audit-2.0.4/auditd.cron)
> 
> The two systems on which rotating the logs has been working are both in
> enforcing mode, the one that has not been rotating the log has enforcing=0
> 
> I do not remember doing anything else different as far as selinux goes on
> these three boxes.  Could not find any reference to audit.log in
> /etc/logrotate.conf /etc/logrotate.d/* /etc/cron.daily/* or
> /etc/cron.weekly/* on any of the systems.
> 
> Any idea why one box out of three would behave differently?  It is a
> worrisome difference.
> 
> Currently running the 2.6.34.6-47.fc13.i686.PAE kernel on the non-rotating
> system and one of the two others.  But the behavior has not changed from the
> initial installation through all of the updates since then.  All three
> systems are have 2.0.4-3.fc13 of audit, audit-libs and audit-libs-python
> installed.
> 
> BTW - great work on SELinux!  It has improved a great deal over the past
> five years.  The only reason I have one box in permissive mode is because it
> is running TWiki and I have not found time to make the changes needed to get
> selinux and twiki to play nice together.

Audit does not use logrotate to rotate logs. I think it does that itself. See /etc/audit/auditd.conf 
Also the log can be rotated by running the auditd rc script: service auditd rotate

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike

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