Bug 1028635

Summary:	audisp-remote will not reconnect to remote server after a transient "critical" network error
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	John Trowbridge <jtrowbri>
Component:	audit	Assignee:	Steve Grubb <sgrubb>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Patrik Kis <pkis>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.4	CC:	jkurik, jtrowbri, ksrot, omoris, pkis, qe-baseos-security, sforsber, sgrubb, vanhoof
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ZStream
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Fixed In Version:	audit-2.2-4.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2014-10-14 07:14:35 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Bug Depends On:	1044628
Bug Blocks:	1042734

Description John Trowbridge 2013-11-08 22:28:51 UTC

Description of problem:

audisp will not reconnect to remote server after a transient "critical" network error. 

Additional info:

Steve Grubb is aware of this issue, and has a fix.

Comment 2 Steve Grubb 2013-11-09 13:39:59 UTC

There is an upstream fix for this. Simple fix to back port just that patch.

Comment 3 Steve Grubb 2013-11-12 19:38:36 UTC

The main patches that fixes this is 867 & 871.

https://fedorahosted.org/audit/changeset/867

However, that also depended on 865, 864, 863, and 860 because the management of plugins was not working correctly. Meaning that if you changed a setting in audisp-remote.conf, you could not do, "service auditd reload" and have sighup propogate to the remote plugin.

Comment 7 Ondrej Moriš 2013-12-02 14:47:11 UTC

Could you please share the details about this bug and its reproducer? It is not clear from the description - what is meant by a 'transient "critical" network error.'?

Comment 14 Steve Grubb 2013-12-12 21:30:10 UTC

audit-2.2-3.el6 was built with just patch 867 & 871 applied.

Comment 22 Steve Grubb 2013-12-20 14:21:51 UTC

Thanks for the investigation. I can see that I need to modify the patch a bit. I will provide an updated build.

Comment 23 Steve Grubb 2014-01-27 22:09:57 UTC

Fixed in upstream commit 895.

Comment 24 Steve Grubb 2014-01-27 22:27:05 UTC

audit-2.2-4.el6 was built to resolve this problem. It adds upstream commit 895 to the patch.

Comment 35 Patrik Kis 2014-02-11 14:53:06 UTC

When updating to the new version, please make sure that the

/etc/audisp/audisp-remote.conf

configuration file is updated too. The default value of "remote_ending_action" has changed from:

remote_ending_action = suspend

to

remote_ending_action = reconnect

This change is an important part if the fix.

Comment 38 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 07:14:35 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1515.html