Steve, I did a search on the manpage for auditctl and there was no references to any -i switch;
   of course it could be because the version we are on might be too old in comparison.


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Warron French


On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 8:43 PM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> wrote:
On 2018-04-24 18:04, warron.french wrote:
> Furthermore, where would I add the -i switch to a rule like this one:
>
> -a always,exit -F path=/usr/bin/cgclassify -F perm=x -F auid>=1000 -F
> auid!=4294967295 -k privileged

I'm not aware of any per-rule switches to permit failure to load to be
non-fatal.  I was suggesting it might help in your situation to add such
a feature, but I think the better solution is a customized rule set for
each machine or type of machine.

> ??
>
> --------------------------
> Warron French
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 6:03 PM, warron.french <warron.french@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Mr. Briggs/Rafi,
> >
> > I don't see the -i switch even mentioned in the manpage for audit.rules.
> > Is this a documented switch, or not yet a capability on Red Hat or CentOS
> > systems?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > --------------------------
> > Warron French
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 2018-04-23 23:41, F Rafi wrote:
> >> > Adding a -i to the rules file should ignore any errors.
> >>
> >> At risk of feature creep, it might be nice to have a flag to ignore
> >> certain rules but not others, a way to tag individual rules with either
> >> a must, or a different tag with "ignore if not present" for file rules.
> >>
> >> > -Farhan
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 9:19 PM, warron.french <warron.french@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > > Hi, I have a requirement to monitor a ton of files, executables and
> >> confug
> >> > > files.
> >> > >
> >> > > Anyway, not all of my systems have every file in the list; and when I
> >> add
> >> > > the rules appropriate, either as a Watch (-w) rule or as an Action
> >> (-a)
> >> > > rule, the rules stop loading when the find a rule that has a file that
> >> > > doesn't exist *on that particular system*.
> >> > >
> >> > > This is the intended effect, yes?
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks in advance,
> >> > > --------------------------
> >> > > Warron French
> >>
> >> - RGB
> >>
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> >> Sr. S/W Engineer, Kernel Security, Base Operating Systems
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> >
> >

- RGB

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