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LIBAUDIT.CONF(5)     System Administration Utilities     LIBAUDIT.CONF(5)

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       libaudit.conf - libaudit configuration file

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       The file /etc/libaudit.conf contains configuration information for
       user space applications that link to libaudit. The applications
       are responsible for querying the settings in this file and obeying
       the admin's preferences. This file contains one configuration
       keyword per line, an equal sign, and then followed by appropriate
       configuration information. The keywords recognized are:
       failure_action.  These keywords are described below.

       failure_action
              This keyword specifies what action the admin wishes a user
              space application to take when there is a failure to send
              an audit event to the kernel. The possible values are:
              IGNORE
               - meaning do nothing, LOG - write to syslog the inability
              to send an audit event, and TERMINATE - the user space
              application should exit.

SEE ALSO         top

       get_auditfail_action(3).

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       Steve Grubb

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       This page is part of the audit (Linux Audit) project.  Information
       about the project can be found at 
       ⟨http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/⟩.  If you have a bug report
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Red Hat                          Oct 2009                LIBAUDIT.CONF(5)

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