Michael C Thompson wrote:  [Mon Oct 02 2006, 05:22:17PM EDT]
 Amy Griffis wrote:
 >Michael C Thompson wrote:  [Mon Oct 02 2006, 03:16:19PM EDT]
 >>Hey all,
 >>
 >>I'm trying to figure out why having a watch a on file is not generating 
 >>a record when I stat said file.
 >>
 >>Put a watch on a file, and do stat file.
 >>
 >>No record... I'm not sure why this is happening, isn't getting such 
 >>information considered security relevant?
 >
 >What is your audit rule?
 
 auditctl -w /path/to/file 
You aren't seeing a record because stat is not included in any of the
syscall classes.  I believe it was omitted because it has a tendency
to fill up audit logs.
You can audit this event by specifying the syscall directly, e.g.
auditctl -a exit,always -S stat -F path=/path/to/file
Regards,
Amy