Hi, I was looking at parsing some of these messages and found that I wanted what it was doing next to an op= for the parser to key on. Also, you can search on the key field for a lot of things and I think its missing in a couple places as is the list number and results. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb(a)redhat.com&gt; diff -urp linux-2.6.18.x86_64.orig/kernel/auditfilter.c linux-2.6.18.x86_64/kernel/auditfilter.c --- linux-2.6.18.x86_64.orig/kernel/auditfilter.c 2006-11-28 14:23:17.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.18.x86_64/kernel/auditfilter.c 2006-11-28 14:21:51.000000000 -0500 @@ -938,9 +938,15 @@ static void audit_update_watch(struct au } ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE); - audit_log_format(ab, "audit updated rules specifying path="); + audit_log_format(ab, "op=updated rules specifying path="); audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, owatch->path); audit_log_format(ab, " with dev=%u ino=%lu\n", dev, ino); + if (r->filterkey) { + audit_log_format(ab, " key="); + audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, r->filterkey); + } else + audit_log_format(ab, " key=(null)"); + audit_log_format(ab, " list=%d res=1", r->listnr); audit_log_end(ab); audit_remove_watch(owatch); @@ -970,14 +976,14 @@ static void audit_remove_parent_watches( e = container_of(r, struct audit_entry, rule); ab = audit_log_start(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, AUDIT_CONFIG_CHANGE); - audit_log_format(ab, "audit implicitly removed rule path="); + audit_log_format(ab, "op=remove rule path="); audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, w->path); if (r->filterkey) { audit_log_format(ab, " key="); audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, r->filterkey); } else audit_log_format(ab, " key=(null)"); - audit_log_format(ab, " list=%d", r->listnr); + audit_log_format(ab, " list=%d res=1", r->listnr); audit_log_end(ab); list_del(&r->rlist); @@ -1411,7 +1417,7 @@ static void audit_log_rule_change(uid_t audit_log_format(ab, " subj=%s", ctx); kfree(ctx); } - audit_log_format(ab, " %s rule key=", action); + audit_log_format(ab, " op=%s rule key=", action); if (rule->filterkey) audit_log_untrustedstring(ab, rule->filterkey); else