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