audit.log file rotation

w1r3d · #1 (**permalink**) 08-06-2009

Hi guys,

I've googled this quite a bit, and tried searching on these forums, but haven't found a solution to my problem. I wanted to inquire about AIX's audit subsystem - more specifically, how to rotate its log file.

So far I've been able to find how to rotate AIX syslog log files, and I found some cronlog info, but neither helps me with audit.log. Does AIX have a way of automatically rotating this file once it reaches a certain size? I really want to avoid having to write a script to monitor the files, rename them and restart audit, but I'll do it if it comes down to it. Any info will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Pedro

ps. in case it might help, this is my config:

/etc/security/audit/config:

Code:

start:
        binmode = on
        streammode = off

bin:
        trail = /audit/trail
        bin1 = /audit/bin1
        bin2 = /audit/bin2
        binsize = 4096
        cmds = /etc/security/audit/bincmds
        freespace = 65536

stream:
        cmds = /etc/security/audit/streamcmds

/etc/security/audit/bincmds:

Code:

/usr/sbin/auditcat -p -o $trail $bin
/usr/sbin/auditpr -v < $trail > /audit/audit.log

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