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auditd is logging to /var/log/messages

edited May 6, 2024 11:35PM in Linux Operating System (MOSC) 4 commentsAnswered ✓

Hello,

We do sometimes experience that auditd begins to log to /var/log/messages instead of /var/log/audit/audit.log in connection with a restart of the service, despite it's defined in auditd config that it should log to last mentioned file.

This happens randomly (and rarely) on our +1.700 servers, even without changing anything other than only restarting the service.

Restarting the service once again fixes the problem.

We see this issue on both Oracle Linux 7 and 8 servers.

Can you help us explain and/or debug what causes this issue?

Best regards,

Kenny Lindberg

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