audispd.conf(5) - Linux man page
Name
audispd.conf - the audit event dispatcher configuration file
Description
audispd.conf is the file that controls the configuration of the audit event dispatcher. The options
that are available are as follows:
- q_depth
- This is a numeric value that tells how big to make the internal queue of the audit event dispatcher. A bigger queue lets it handle a flood of events
better, but could hold events that are not processed when the daemon is terminated. If you get messages in syslog about events getting dropped, increase this
value. The default value is 80.
- overflow_action
- This option determines how the daemon should react to overflowing its internal queue. When this happens, it means that more events are being received than
it can get rid of. This error means that it is going to lose the current event its trying to dispatch. It has the following choices: ignore,
syslog, suspend, single, and halt. If set to ignore, the audisp daemon does nothing. syslog means that it will issue
a warning to syslog. suspend will cause the audisp daemon to stop processing events. The daemon will still be alive. The single option will cause
the audisp daemon to put the computer system in single user mode. halt option will cause the audisp daemon to shutdown the computer system.
- name_format
- This option controls how computer node names are inserted into the audit event stream. It has the following choices: none, hostname,
fqd, numeric, and user. None means that no computer name is inserted into the audit event. hostname is the name returned by
the gethostname syscall. The fqd means that it takes the hostname and resolves it with dns for a fully qualified domain name of that machine.
Numeric is similar to fqd except it resolves the IP address of the machine. User is an admin defined string from the name option. The default
value is none.
- name
- This is the admin defined string that identifies the machine if user is given as the name_format option.
See Also
audispd(8)
