Description of problem: Al Viro submitted a patch that gives another option to have audit rules trigger on a specific kind of file. I think he said it was commit 8b67dca9420474623709e00d72a066068a502b20 in mainline kernel.
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in kernel-2.6.18-107.el5 You can download this test kernel from http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5
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