Missing /dev/auditpipe
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Thu Oct 2 12:19:11 UTC 2008
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Attila Nagy wrote:
> Running RELENG_7 (and HEAD too), and I can't find the auditpipe device. Is
> there anything which should be set in order to make it useable?
>
> auditd runs and logs to /var/audit, which I can read with praudit.
(Following up to the list because Attila and I exchanged e-mail offline)
The problem here was that /dev/auditpipe is cloning, so it doesn't exist until
you try to open it. In FreeBSD 8.x, and possibly 7.2, we're moving to the new
per-cdev private data so that /dev/auditpipe will always exist supporting
multiple session, and there won't be a series of dynamicall created devices,
but that's not ready to hit a release yet.
Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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