From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.0.4-1.3.1 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: The kernel still emits records about the audit daemon. This can cause a geometric explosion in records since each logging of a record generates 7-10 events - each having several records. This rule can be used to trigger it: auditctl -a entry,always -S all -F auid=-1 This is what results: type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1118858393.806:1338447): arch=40000003 syscall=240 success=yes exit=1 a0=b8ce64 a1=1 a2=1 a3=a79a208 items=0 pid=1716 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 comm="auditd" exe="/sbin/auditd" type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1118858393.806:1338456): arch=40000003 syscall=4 success=yes exit=254 a0=5 a1=b7fff000 a2=fe a3=fe items=0 pid=1716 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 comm="auditd" exe="/sbin/auditd" type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1118858393.806:1338459): arch=40000003 syscall=197 success=yes exit=0 a0=5 a1=b7fe81bc a2=659ff4 a3=b7fe81bc items=0 pid=1716 auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 comm="auditd" exe="/sbin/auditd" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. New functionality Additional info:
Should be fixed in audit.62 build.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html