Re: Auditd syslog plugin
On Monday, June 4, 2018 9:02:04 AM EDT Boyce, Kevin P [US] (AS) wrote:
All,
After enabling the syslog plugin for audispd and sending logs to a remote
server I am seeing every event being written to /var/log/messages locally
which is filling up /var.
This is all redundant since local audit logs are kept in /var/log/audit.
Is there a way to prevent auditd syslog plugin from writing to
/var/log/messages?
That is pretty much what the plugin does. It writes all events to syslog
which based on rules in /etc/rsyslog.conf decides what to do with the text.
Typically it is to write everything to /var/log/messages.
However, you can assign a specific facility to the audit events in the /etc/
audisp/plugins.d/syslog.conf file and then in rsyslog.conf exclude the
facility by putting <facility>.none on the /var/log/messages line.
-Steve