Re: audit-1.7.16 released
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:56 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
On Monday 26 October 2009 10:46:33 am LC Bruzenak wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 11:55 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
...
> >
> > - If audisp-remote plugin has a queue at exit, use non-zero exit code
> > - In auditd, tell libev to stop processing a connection when idle timeout
> > - In auditd, tell libev to stop processing a connection when shutting
> > down
> >
> > This release fixes a bug introduced in the 1.7.15 release. The main
> > problem was that the idle timeout was not telling libev to stop
> > processing the associated socket when it closed an idle connection.
> > Subsequent reconnects would go into an error state and libev would
> > immediately close the new connection. This update fixes that problem. I
> > also applied a patch from trunk that checks the queue size on exit of
> > audisp-remote to decide if it was successful or not.
> >
> > Please let me know if you run across any problems with this release.
>
> Is there any indication that this event has happened being logged?
This was a bugfix where libev was not being told that the connection was closed
by the auditd code. The fix is right below the syslog message saying this
happened.
-Steve
Steve,
Thinking about the client network connection timeout...
I am wondering if this is a serious enough condition to warrant
inserting an audit event in addition to the syslog.
For me it is, because sending a termination event from the client is
both difficult and unreliable, and I am supposed to provide client
(sender) startup/shutdown data. For me, the connection termination is a
good indication, so I will probably patch mine.
I wonder if it would be helpful for others as well.
Thx,
LCB.
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LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
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