On Thursday 01 May 2008 14:11:19 LC Bruzenak wrote: What's in the audit logs starting now. aureport uses the exact same code as ausearch for time operations, so its more informative to use it to see what time is actually resolved from these keywords. I get: Summary Report ====================== Range of time in logs: 04/25/2008 09:31:10.388 - 05/02/2008 09:57:20.859 Selected time for report: 05/02/2008 00:00:00 - 05/02/2008 09:57:20.859 Which is clearly wrong. This looks like its resolving to today instead of now. I expect ausearch --start now to return nothing unless the system is busy doing a lot of logging and you get records between the time it gets system time until the time it opens the last log file for reading. No, tail is not easy to do. Patches are welcome if anyone wants to do it. But you can do: tail -f /var/log/audit/audit.log | ausearch -i if you wanted that. -Steve