Re: last restart of auditd - in EPOCH time

Hello, On Wednesday, August 4, 2021 3:25:40 PM EDT warron.french wrote: > Is there a hidden switch option to auditctl that would tell me the last > time auditd was restart specifically in epoch (down to the second)? Not auditctl, but maybe ausearch: ausearch --start boot -m daemon_start -i Or... systemctl status auditd.service | grep Active And if you need this in the epoch: date --date="$(systemctl status auditd.service|grep Active|awk '{printf "%s %s", $6, $7}')" +"%s" > If my rules are changed to non-immutable ( -e 1 ) rebooted, and then > changed back to immutable ( -e 2 ), then I discover this weeks later, then > I will not know for sure which was most recently updated/restarted. That might be one issue with using ausearch...it might have scrolled away. Maybe this could be collected at start and printed as part of the auditd state report? I could see this being useful information for various reasons. > That is the reason for the question. I am doing this for a hardening > script that will tell me based on known recent changes (as of script > execution), but I cannot properly/successfully assess for dates outside of > a day or so. :-/ systemctl should be able to get you the info you need. I might add this info to the state report, though. -Steve