seaudit crashes with segmentation fault

Kevin Carr kcarr at tresys.com
Fri Jul 8 19:25:12 UTC 2005


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-selinux-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-selinux-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of John Bray
> i'm posting this per stephen's request:
> 
> On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 14:32 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 13:15 -0500, John Bray wrote:
> > > every time i try to run seaudit, it immediately crashes with a
> > > segmentation fault.  the following errors appear, with or without any
> > > arguments on the commandline:
> > >
> > > [root at junior setools-2.1.0]# seaudit -l /var/log/messages
> > > -p /etc/selinux/targeted/src/policy/policy.conf
> > <snip>
> > >
> > > wonder if anyone has any ideas or suggestions?
> >
> > - Post to fedora-selinux-list for SELinux questions.
> > - What is your base system, FC3 or FC4?
> > - In FC4, unless you disable auditd, audit messages are sent by the
> > kernel to auditd and are written by auditd to /var/log/audit/audit.log.
> > - Not sure that seaudit has been updated for the associated changes.
> >
> 
> thanks stephen.  i didn't even know that there was such a list.  :-)
> 
> its FC4.  clean install.  auditd is running.
> 
> i guess i'd misunderstood. i'd thought that with it running, the
> audit.log as well as to messages.
> 
> however, if i point at audit.log instead, it does NOT segfault, but
> finds no messages either.  :-)
> 
> thanks for your help.  i will see about getting to the selinux list.
> 
> hope your day is going well.
> 
> john

FYI - The latest release of setools has addressed this problem.  Version
2.1.1 of setools is available at www.tresys.com.

Kevin Carr
Tresys Technology





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