Re: Weird issues in 2.6.5

On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 8:47:58 AM EDT Chris Nandor wrote: > 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. The github repo is a mirror of svn and is not always up to date. The issue you are seeing is fixed in the next commit after the mirror stops. https://fedorahosted.org/audit/changeset/1342 if you want the lastest you can: svn co http://svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/audit/trunk and then generate from there. I am planning to release audit-2.6.5 tomorrow. So, if anyone can test the current code, I'd really appreciate it. I'm hoping the next release settles down the audit code. > 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. I think that should have been detected during configure. -Steve