On Thursday, September 26, 2013 05:36:45 PM Stefano Schiavi wrote:
I am trying to use auditd to monitor changes to a directory. The
problem
is that when I setup a rule it does monitor the dir I specified but also
all the sub dir and files making the monitor useless due to endless
verbosity.
Here is the rule I setup:
|auditctl-w/home/raven/public_html-p war-k raven-pubhtmlwatch|
A watch is really a syscall rule in disguise. If you place a watch on a
directory, auditctl will turn it into:
-a exit,always -F dir=/home/raven/public_html -F perm=war -F key=raven-pubhtmlwatch
The -F dir field is recursive. However, if you just want to watch the directory
entries, you can change that to -F path.
-a exit,always -F path=/home/raven/public_html -F perm=war -F key=raven-pubhtmlwatch
This is not recursive and just watches the inode that the directory occupies.
-Steve