Problems with auditd -- resolved

[Ganbold]

Robert Watson wrote:
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> On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Ganbold wrote:
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>> Strange, there are still no logs in /var/audit dir :( Even tried to 
>> use your config, no success. However when I logged on to my desktop 
>> from console to itself (ssh -l tsgan localhost) it starts logging. 
>> But why it is not logging when I'm on console?
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> Are you using xdm/kdm/gdm/etc or /usr/bin/login?  I'm not sure that 
> the various GUI login managers associated with X11 ship with BSM 
> support compiled in by default, although given that they also run on 
> Solaris, it is likely they support it.
Ok, I'm using gnome and gnome-terminal, and it is not logging. Probably 
gnome-terminal is not compiled with BSM support.
Auditd logs when I go to console using ctrl+alt+f2 combination from X.
Thanks for clarifying this.

Ganbold

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> Robert N M Watson
> Computer Laboratory
> University of Cambridge
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