Re: audit2allow failure

[Daniel J Walsh]

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Gene Heskett wrote:
>  Greetings;
>  
>  Running selinux in permissive mode, the /var/log/audit/audit.log was filling 
>  up with squawks re cron jobs.  Seeing an example on how to run audit2allow, I 
>  thought I'd try it to see if that would shut the muttering up.
>  
>  [root@coyote ~]# audit2allow -M local -i /var/log/audit/audit.log
>  compilation failed:
>  (unknown source)::ERROR 'syntax error' at token '' on line 6:
>  
>  
>  /usr/bin/checkmodule:  error(s) encountered while parsing configuration
>  /usr/bin/checkmodule:  loading policy configuration from local.te
>  
>  I can't see anything different about line 6 of the log, but here is a head of 
>  that file:
>  
>  type=USER_ACCT msg=audit(1193734801.287:27922): user pid=11880 uid=0 
>  auid=4294967295 msg='PAM: accounting acct=root : exe="/usr/sbin/crond" 
>  (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=cron res=success)'
>  type=CRED_ACQ msg=audit(1193734801.288:27923): user pid=11880 uid=0 
>  auid=4294967295 msg='PAM: setcred acct=root : exe="/usr/sbin/crond" 
>  (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=cron res=success)'
>  type=USER_START msg=audit(1193734801.288:27924): user pid=11880 uid=0 
>  auid=4294967295 msg='PAM: session open acct=root : exe="/usr/sbin/crond" 
>  (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=cron res=success)'
>  type=CRED_DISP msg=audit(1193734801.312:27925): user pid=11880 uid=0 
>  auid=4294967295 msg='PAM: setcred acct=root : exe="/usr/sbin/crond" 
>  (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=cron res=success)'
>  type=USER_END msg=audit(1193734801.312:27926): user pid=11880 uid=0 
>  auid=4294967295 msg='PAM: session close acct=root : exe="/usr/sbin/crond" 
>  (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=cron res=success)'
>  type=USER_ACCT msg=audit(1193734861.316:27927): user pid=11969 uid=0 
>  auid=4294967295 msg='PAM: accounting acct=root : exe="/usr/sbin/crond" 
>  (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=cron res=success)'
>  type=CRED_ACQ msg=audit(1193734861.316:27928): user pid=11969 uid=0 
>  auid=4294967295 msg='PAM: setcred acct=root : exe="/usr/sbin/crond" 
>  (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=cron res=success)'
>  
>  
>  contents of local.te:
>  ------
>  module local 1.0;
>  
>  
>  
>  EOF
>  ------
>  
>  The example command line shown above is I assume is correct, is it not?
>   
Those are not avc messages.  They are standard audit messages generated
by the audit system.  So since audit2allow did not find any avc messages
it is failing.
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