Re: Stop/Disable AUDITD on RHEL7
On Friday, August 4, 2017 4:06:56 PM EDT warron.french wrote:
Hello Steve, I am not running Puppet on this system. Specifically
because
it is to be built as my newer RH Satellite 6.2.10 server.
The *flush* variable has been set to
*data.*
I'd recommend INCREMENTAL_ASYNC if the audit package > 2.5. If not, change to
INCREMENTAL and things should be a lot smoother. If you have
INCREMENTAL_ASYNC, set freq to 100. If not then set it to 250 or 500.
I am using an image built by a coworker, but as I said we are not
running
Puppet on this particular host - guaranteed. What other sort of systems
management tools can I check for?
There's a lot. Maybe Satellite is doing it? I've never used Satellite so this
is wild speculation. You can set a rule to audit access to /usr/lib/systemd/
system/auditd.service and perhaps you might find out who's doing it.
Also, how do you know that auditd is restarted? Are you judging by syslog or
audit logs?
-Steve
On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
> On Thursday, August 3, 2017 5:12:39 PM EDT warron.french wrote:
> > I am running RHEL 7 Server so that I can also run Red Hat Satellite.
> >
> > I seem to be having resource contention problems and auditd is a part of
> > the problem consuming up to 22.0% according to results of the *top*
>
> command.
>
> I'd be curious what the flush technique is in auditd.conf.
>
> > I have:
> > 1. executed a *systemctl disable auditd; systemctl stop auditd*
> > (with
> > an error about dependencies)
>
> "service auditd stop" is the correct way to stop auditd.
>
> > 2. executed a *service auditd stop (*and the service stops but
> > doesn't
> > not remain stopped).
>
> Do you have some systems management software that is sneaking in behind
> you
> and modifying settings and starting it?
>
> > 3. Rebooting the machine after the *systemctl disable auditd *also
> > didn't have any effect.
>
> It should. I don't know how else it could get re-enabled without some
> systems
> management software also configuring it when you're not looking.
>
> -Steve
>
> > I did set -e 1 in the audit.rules file so that I could stop the auditd
> > on
> > my demand, but the service restarts anyway.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your help in advance.
> > --------------------------
> > Warron French