I set a cron job script to perform ausearch every 5 minutes on a central log server.

The logs from various hosts are received together in the same file

The logs are rotated on a daily basis

Everything ran fine for several days, then suddently I got :

Corrupted checkpoint file. Inode match, but newer complete event (1582684501.003:48035) found before loaded checkpoint 1582684346.999:48034

The events are :

checkpoint

audit.log.3: node=xxxxxxxx type=USER_END msg=audit(1582684346.999:48034): pid=15666 uid=0 auid=0

newer event

audit.log.2: node= xxxxxxxx type=USER_ACCT msg=audit(1582684501.003:48035): pid=16000

I guess the problem is due to the log rotation since the two messages are coming from the same host.

I have a few questions

When it happens how can I restart the process ?

Is there a way to restart ausearch from the newer event ?

How could I extract the events between the checkpoint and the newer event ?

The checkpoint file contains :

dev=0xFD03

inode=1048581

output=xxxxxxxx 1582770601.342:380885 0x456

What is this : 0x456 ?

How can I find the value for a given event ?

Philippe

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