Hi, I had some odd behavior to report.

I am running ubuntu 12.04.  Using the default auditd and audispd-plugins packages for my release, I was able to get logs sent to local syslog and to a remote auditd server (same basic configuration), but the entries were being buffered somewhere (I think on the client side), and if the server died reconnections didn't happen.

So, I wanted a more recent version, so I compiled audit-userspace from the github src mirror,* trunk@1341.

When I did, I got some weird results.  For example, I expected got something like this in my audit.log:

  node=host.example.com type=CWD msg=audit(1468363871.644:3279856):  cwd="/etc/audisp"

And that was as expected.  In syslog, I expected to get:

  Jul 13 08:34:53 host audispd: node=host.loc.example.com type=CWD msg=audit(1468363871.644:3279856):  cwd="/etc/audisp"

But instead, I got:

  Jul 13 08:34:53 host audispd: type=CWD msg=node=host.loc.example.com type=CWD msg=audit(1468363871.644

As you can see, the whole thing was prepended with "type=CWD msg=", and the line was truncated.  Similarly, on the remote host, I got the same thing:

  type=CWD msg=node=host.loc.example.com type=CWD msg=audit(1468363871.644

I noticed that the most recent version of the src for ubuntu was 2.4.5, so I grabbed the src tarball from packages.ubuntu and built it, and now everything looks fine.  The exact same line I see in my audit.log shows up in the remote audit.log, with no buffering.  When I restart the remote auditd server or client, it reconnects.  syslog has same entry (prepended with the timestamp etc.).  Everything seems happy now.

*For some reason I had to define `CC_FOR_BUILD=gcc` in my shell when I ran `make` from the svn/git src.  I did not require this when building 2.4.5 from the ubuntu src.

--Chris