Re: help needed: how to exclude a single file from being audited.
On Wednesday, September 07, 2011 12:47:53 AM Vipin Rathor wrote:
I've a situation here. I've put a watch on a directory (e.g.
-w /etc).
Due to this, every action on files under this directory are being
audited.
Now I want to exclude a single file in that directory (e.g.
/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm), how should I do that?
I tried something like this in my exclude list:
-a exclude,never -F path=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm
But got this error:
Only msgtype field can be used with exclude filter
Any idea, how to exclude a single file from a 'watched' directory?
Path fields must be on the exit filter. Try:
-a exit,never -F path=/etc/sysconfig/bash-prompt-xterm
And this must be before the rule on the directory. Note that this is kernel version
dependent. There was a bug sometime ago where the kernel was not preserving the
ordering of file system watches and the never rules didn't work.
-Steve