Re: No more report of quantity of rules successfully loaded

On 2023-05-24 10:42, Steve Grubb wrote: > Hello Warron, > > On Tuesday, May 23, 2023 7:12:07 PM EDT warron.french wrote: > > Hi, I am running auditd-3.0.7-4 on an Alma Linux v8.8. > > > > I know that for all of RHEL 6 and RHEL 7 variants that I worked with, to > > include CentOS (not Stream) that after I rebooted a server or restarted the > > auditd service (with -e 1 set) that I would 100% of the time get a report > > in /var/log/messages about the quantity of rules that successfully loaded. > > It has never done that unless someone else has a patch they did not send > upstream. > > > I could compare that to my unified rules file > > (/etc/audit/rules.d/Unified.rules - for a reference) and strip out the > > typical for auditd Control rules (-D, -e 1, -f 1, -b, -r, for examples) and > > then assess if I had the full set of files loaded or not. > > > > With this implementation of auditd, on version 3.0.7-4, I am not getting > > those results anymore. > > Am I looking in the wrong place, because for me this is important > > information? > > It has never done that. auditctl -D gives the output of auditctl -s as a > convenience. But auditctl -s has never reported how many rules are loaded. I > don't think the kernel has a counter. It has a variable for if any rules are > loaded, but not the quantity. Minor correction: there is a kernel variable (audit_n_rules) that counts the number of syscall rules in place, but it isn't reported directly outside the kernel. This feeds the boolean (struct audit_context)->dummy. > > Yes, I know that I can also manually execute "auditctl -l | wc -l" and get > > that information too, but I was wondering if this is planned or if I am > > looking in the wrong place, or what to do. > > It has never done that and is not planned. > > -Steve - RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs <rgb(a)redhat.com&gt; Sr. S/W Engineer, Kernel Security, Base Operating Systems Remote, Ottawa, Red Hat Canada IRC: rgb, SunRaycer Voice: +1.647.777.2635, Internal: (81) 32635 -- Linux-audit mailing list Linux-audit(a)redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit