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 -- Linux-audit mailing list Linux-audit(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit