Re: Duplicate settings?

On 1/20/20 10:14 AM, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Monday, January 20, 2020 10:04:24 AM EST Leam Hall wrote: >> On 1/20/20 9:37 AM, Steve Grubb wrote: >>> On Monday, January 20, 2020 9:24:56 AM EST Leam Hall wrote: >>>> If /etc/audit/auditd.conf encounters conflicting duplicate settings, >>>> what happens? Takes the first, takes the last, or what? For example: >>>> >>>> space_left = 25 >>>> space_left = 100 >>> >>> It overwrites the first value with the second one. You can also run: >>> >>> # service auditd state >>> >>> to see what the current value is if your audit daemon is somewhat >>> recent. >> >> Hey Steve, a follow up. Is the man page for auditd.conf wrong? My auditd >> failed to start when giving space_left with a '%' sign. > > Usually it writes the reason why in syslog. Does it say anything there? I don't grok systemd, so here's the whole response: Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status auditd.service ● auditd.service - Security Auditing Service Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/auditd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2020-01-20 09:27:37 EST; 19min ago Docs: man:auditd(8) https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-documentation Process: 2695 ExecStart=/sbin/auditd (code=exited, status=6) Jan 20 09:27:36 leam_c7 systemd[1]: Starting Security Auditing Service... Jan 20 09:27:37 leam_c7 auditd[2695]: Value 25% should only be numbers - line 20