Bug 398201

Summary: auditd does not time stamp log entries in /var/log/audit/audit.log
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: william hanlon <whanlon>
Component: auditAssignee: Steve Grubb <sgrubb>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: low Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 8   
Target Milestone: ---   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2007-11-26 14:03:30 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description william hanlon 2007-11-25 08:19:31 UTC 
Description of problem:
auditd doesn't timestamp entries in /var/log/audit/audit.log

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
audit-1.6.2-4.fc8

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. service auditd start
  
Actual results:
reading /var/log/audit/audit.log shows many entries, but they are not time stamped.

Expected results:
each entry whould indicate the time it was written to the log as is done for
/var/log/messages for instance.

Additional info:
When many selinux errors are being hunted down, it would be very useful to have
timestamps of each entry to easily associate system actions (starting a daemon
for example) with the actual error in audit.log.
Comment 1 Steve Grubb 2007-11-25 20:03:32 UTC 
The timestamps are already in the events - but encoded. The ausearch program is
the audit log viewer. It will extract the timestamp from the events and display
it for you. The '-i' option will do further interpretation. If you have done
something recent and want to see the avcs, use: ausearch --start recent -m avc
-i | less

If you can see the timestamps though ausearch, I'll go ahead and close this bug
report.
Comment 2 william hanlon 2007-11-25 22:31:06 UTC 
Thanks. I used ausearch as you recommended and I can now see the times.
Comment 3 Steve Grubb 2007-11-26 14:03:30 UTC 
Closing bug report as mentioned above. If you have any questions about audit
feel free to contact myself or linux-audit mail list.