Thank you so much Steve!

Do you know how to set this up via "auditctl" ?

I was not able to find a way looking at:
[~]# auditctl -help

Otherwise where would I edit the rule? (it's not in the .rules file, but it is displayed if I auditctl -l)

Thank you so much
Stefano

On 09/26/2013 08:25 PM, Steve Grubb wrote:

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