On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 10:34:14 AM dean(a)defreitas.net wrote: > I am using RHEL 5.8 (upgraded from 5.7) and I can not get these reporting > tools to work from cron. I have tried many variations to no avail: > > /sbin/ausearch -if /var/log/audit/audit.log -ts 05/29/2012 00:00:00 -te > 05/29/2012 23:59:59 > somefile.txt /sbin/ausearch --input-logs -ts > 05/29/2012 00:00:00 -te 05/29/2012 23:59:59 > somefile.txt cat > /var/log/audit/audit.log | /sbin/ausearch -ts 05/29/2012 00:00:00 -te > 05/29/2012 23:59:59 > somefile.txt > > Each of those work from the command line and in a script, but fail when the > script is run from cron. You need to pass the "--input-logs" command line option to force it to look at the logs instead of stdin. -Steve