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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Secure & Audit logs Post 302587315 by verdepollo on Wednesday 4th of January 2012 02:10:32 PM
Old 01-04-2012
I'm still not getting you fully. You want to rotate the logs every 6 months, but also on a weekly basis?

You can indeed use your current syslog and just add more logs to it; Keep in mind however that all other logs will also start to follow the same 6-month rotation rules. Mail spools for instance are prone to eat up large amounts of space when something goes wrong whith the mail daemon. The same is true for "messages" log file if it's keeping a record of debugging information.

Used space in /var depends on the size of the logs as well as the size of the filesystem. Without having a good understanding of your particular system it'd be hard to tell exactly what would be the best approach to follow in order to prevent disk saturation.

Last edited by verdepollo; 01-04-2012 at 03:19 PM..
 

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audusr(1M)																audusr(1M)

NAME
audusr - select users to audit SYNOPSIS
user] ...] user] ...] DESCRIPTION
is used to specify users to be audited or excluded from auditing. The command only works for systems that have been converted to trusted mode. To select users to audit on systems that have not been converted to trusted mode, use the command. See also audit(5), userdbset(1M), userdb(4), and in security(4). If no arguments are specified, displays the audit setting of every user. is restricted to privileged users. Options recognizes the following options: Audit the specified user. The auditing system records audit records to the ``current'' audit file when the specified user executes audited events or system calls. Use to specify events to be audited (see audevent(1M)). Do not audit the specified user. Audit all users. Do not audit any users. The and options are mutually exclusive: that is, if is specified, cannot be specified; if is specified, cannot be specified. Users specified with are audited (or excluded from auditing) beginning with their next login session, until excluded from auditing (or specified for auditing) with a subsequent invocation. Users already logged into the system when is invoked are unaffected during that login session; however, any user who logs in after is invoked is audited or excluded from auditing accordingly. WARNINGS
HP-UX 11i Version 3 is the last release to support trusted systems functionality. AUTHOR
was developed by HP. FILES
File containing flags to indicate whether users are audited. SEE ALSO
audevent(1M), userdbset(1M), setaudproc(2), audswitch(2), audwrite(2), security(4), userdb(4), audit(5). TO BE OBSOLETED audusr(1M)
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