[systemd-devel] parsing audit messages

[David Herrmann]

Hi

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 3:49 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> 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.

Audit messages cannot be parsed reliably. They don't do escaping and
it's really a big mess. I'm not saying we shouldn't try it, but just
as a heads-up, this might cause some troubles.

Thanks
David