[systemd-devel] parsing audit messages

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Sat Mar 14 19:49:07 PDT 2015


Hi,

I was looking at some debug logs, and the audit messages are
semi-useless in their current undecoded form:

mar 14 22:24:02 fedora22 audit[1]: <audit-1130> pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 msg='unit=systemd-udev-trigger comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
mar 14 22:24:05 fedora22 audit: <audit-1327> proctitle=2F7362696E2F6D6F6470726F6265002D71002D2D0069707461626C655F7365637572697479

You added code to parse this, and I think we should make use of it and
put msg= field as MESSAGE=, and maybe store the original message as
_AUDIT= or something. If there's no msg field, like with proctitle,
print all fields that are in the message, but using our cescape, and
not this hexadecimal form which is unreadable for humans.

Thoughts?

Zbyszek


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