cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d auditd

[Robert Watson]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Andrey Chernov wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:31:04PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
>> rwatson     2006-09-24 17:31:04 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     etc/rc.d             auditd
>>   Log:
>>   Sleep for one second after calling audit -t to give the audit daemon a
>>   chance to actually terminate the audit service and exit.  Otherwise, on
>>   an rc.d/auditd restart, the new audit daemon instance may try to start
>>   auditing while the previous session is still running.  Likewise, this
>>   ensures a chance for auditd to terminate the audit trail at system
>>   shutdown.
>
> You can't be sure about 1 second (or any N seconds) and should choouse 
> another method like pid file or pipe file or some sysctl value presence 
> checking loop.

Yes, the comment you helpfully cut from my commit message in your reply said 
pretty much exactly that.  However, fixing this is non-trivial, and not 
something that will happen by 6.2, hence the workaround.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge