Re: No more report of quantity of rules successfully loaded

Hello Warron, On Tuesday, May 23, 2023 7:12:07 PM EDT warron.french wrote: > Hi, I am running auditd-3.0.7-4 on an Alma Linux v8.8. > > I know that for all of RHEL 6 and RHEL 7 variants that I worked with, to > include CentOS (not Stream) that after I rebooted a server or restarted the > auditd service (with -e 1 set) that I would 100% of the time get a report > in /var/log/messages about the quantity of rules that successfully loaded. It has never done that unless someone else has a patch they did not send upstream. > I could compare that to my unified rules file > (/etc/audit/rules.d/Unified.rules - for a reference) and strip out the > typical for auditd Control rules (-D, -e 1, -f 1, -b, -r, for examples) and > then assess if I had the full set of files loaded or not. > > With this implementation of auditd, on version 3.0.7-4, I am not getting > those results anymore. > Am I looking in the wrong place, because for me this is important > information? It has never done that. auditctl -D gives the output of auditctl -s as a convenience. But auditctl -s has never reported how many rules are loaded. I don't think the kernel has a counter. It has a variable for if any rules are loaded, but not the quantity.

> Yes, I know that I can also manually execute "auditctl -l | wc -l" and get > that information too, but I was wondering if this is planned or if I am > looking in the wrong place, or what to do. It has never done that and is not planned. -Steve