Author Topic: Auditd service (Read 1478 times)

glenns · « **on:** August 18, 2005, 01:59:08 PM »

How do I get the auditd process to periodically clean up the logs in the /var/log/audit.d directory. I\'ve had an issue where the /var directory was filling up and this was due to too many large files in the aforementioned directory.

Thanks

dynaweb · « **Reply #1 on:** August 18, 2005, 08:02:00 PM »

I would try a simple one-line command and program it into cron to your liking. For example, if you have a directory /var/log/audit.d and wanted to clean it out once a week, just enter into cron weekly this command:

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rm -Rf /var/log/audit.d/*
which will clean out the contents of that directory but leave the folder there intact.

zelo · « **Reply #2 on:** August 18, 2005, 08:10:47 PM »

Is there an automated way to do this?

adb22791 · « **Reply #3 on:** August 18, 2005, 09:11:29 PM »

Quote from: dynaweb

I would try a simple one-line command and program it into cron to your liking.

Automate it with Cron

dynaweb · « **Reply #4 on:** August 18, 2005, 09:25:52 PM »

Yeh, cron is available through your control panel. /var... is a root or admin owned folder, so you will most likely need to run the command as root user for this case.

glenns · « **Reply #5 on:** August 19, 2005, 07:07:23 AM »

Thanks for your help everyone.

bunnyrage · « **Reply #6 on:** September 29, 2005, 04:43:50 PM »

you could write a shell script to cron

you could have it cp the files you want onto a separate file or ftp server

then rm specific folders
you may have to tell rm in your script to force -r so it will enter the dir

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