SUMMARY (ADDENDUM): audit log file maintenance

From: Senulis, Joseph A <Joseph.Senulis_at_dnr.state.wi.us>
Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 11:27:31 -0600

Hi again,
     I got a request that Spider's code be posted and has graciously
consented. It is currently at:

http://users.rcn.com/spiderb/sec/audreport.ksh.txt

I am also including the text below, before the original summary and the
original query.
--Joe

#!/usr/bin/ksh -ph

# Script to return summary of login/logout activities on the system since
# the last time it was run.
# Leaves the last-mailed message in 'lastmsg', a timestamp for tracking
# its last run in 'lasttime', and binary auditlog files in
# 'tevents.DATE' files. A crontab entry to clean them out is recommended.
# Expected customization starts with the Bdir= assignment and ends at
# the Modems= assignment.
# By default, it expects to use /var/adm/local as its private directory,
# that there exists a 'secadmin' alias for receiving its reports, and
# that there's a modem on the machine with device major,minor of '24,2'
# (as on my "Pelican" [3000/300]). Multiple modems, events, and email
# targets are possible. The modems should be "major,minor" pairs, space-
# separated. The events should be properly-formatted "-e event" options
# for audit_tool. The email targets should be comma-separated. (Yes,
# I know that's not what the manpage shows for mailx, but it's what
# works best with mailx and sendmail.)

# I run this script out of root's crontab every morning so that my day
# starts off with a summary of the preceding 24 hours' events.
# This script takes options:
# -c cat the report instead of emailing it
# -i intermediate run--don't update lasttime and don't
# clobber 'tevents.DATE' (creates 'tevents.DATE.tmp')
# and creates 'lastmsg.tmp' rather than 'lastmsg'
# Any other arguments are errors.

export PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/sbin
export TMPDIR=/var/tmp

# where this script should run
Bdir=/var/adm/local
# where to find audit log files
Adir=/var/audit

Ofile="${Bdir}/lasttime"
Nfile="${Bdir}/newtime"
Afile="${Bdir}/tevents"
Tfile="${Bdir}/lastmsg"
Mfile="${Bdir}/lastmdm"
Whom="secadmin"

#Format="-B"
Format="-O time,userid,pid,res,event"

# Use of a site-defined event alias is recommended here if the list might
# be long otherwise.
Events="-e trusted_event"

#Modems=""
Modems="24,2"

umask 077

# init options
doemail=1
dolasttime=1
dousage=0
Ttmp=

while getopts "ci" opt
do
        case "$opt" in
            c)
                doemail=0
                ;;
            i)
                dolasttime=0
                Ttmp=.tmp
                ;;
            *)
                dousage=1
                ;;
        esac
done
shift OPTIND-1
if [ $# -gt 0 ]
then
        dousage=1
fi
if [ $dousage -ne 0 ]
then
        print -u2 "Usage: $0 [-c] [-i]"
        return 2
fi

# ensure the output format we need from date.
export LANG=C LC_ALL=C
export TZ=:UTC

if [ ! -f "${Ofile}" ]
then
        print 700101000001 > "${Ofile}"
        touch -t 197001010000.01 "${Ofile}"
fi

date +%y%m%d%H%M%S > "${Nfile}"

curfile=$(auditd -q)
if [ -f "$curfile" ] && ( [ -f "$curfile".Z ] || [ -f "$curfile".gz ] )
then
    nowait=1
else
    nowait=0
fi
auditd -dx
if [ $nowait -eq 0 ]
then
    sleep 20 # give some time for the compress of the old log to finish
    while [ -f "$curfile" -a -f "$curfile".Z ] || [ -f "$curfile" -a -f
"$curfile".gz ]
    do
        sleep 2 # wait some more
    done
fi

: > "${Afile}"

# V5.0's audit_tool will sort between logfiles if given multiple files.
# This is for TruCluster support. So, we take advantage of it if on V5.x.
case $(uname -r) in
    ?[1-4]*|[1-4]*)
        for af in $(find "$Adir" -name "auditlog.*" -newer "${Ofile}" -print
| sort)
        do
            audit_tool -S -b -t $(<"${Ofile}") -T $(<"${Nfile}") -o -Q \
                $Events \
                "${af}" 2>/dev/null >>"${Afile}"
            # the suppressed errors are for the {un,}compressed messages
        done
        ;;
    *)
        audit_tool -S -b -t $(<"${Ofile}") -T $(<"${Nfile}") -o -Q \
            $Events 2>/dev/null >>"${Afile}" \
            $(find "$Adir" -name "auditlog.*" -newer "${Ofile}" -print |
sort)
        # the suppressed errors are for the {un,}compressed messages
        ;;
esac

TZ=:localtime

Tfile="${Tfile}${Ttmp}"
if [ -s "${Afile}" ]
then
        audit_tool $Format -Q "${Afile}" > "${Tfile}"
        if [ -s "${Tfile}" ]
        then
                case "$Modems" in
                    "")
                        :
                        ;;
                    *)
                        xmodems=
                        for modem in $Modems
                        do
                                xmodems="$xmodems -x $modem"
                        done
                        audit_tool $Format -Q $xmodems "${Afile}" \
> "${Mfile}" 2>/dev/null
                        if [ -s "${Mfile}" ]
                        then
                            print "\nModem line specific summary:\n" \
>>"${Tfile}"
                            cat "${Mfile}" >>"${Tfile}"
                        fi
                        rm -f "${Mfile}"
                        ;;
                esac
                if [ $doemail -eq 1 ]
                then
                    Mail -s 'login/out audit summary' ${Whom} < "${Tfile}"
                else
                    print "login/out audit summary\n"
                    cat "${Tfile}"
                    print ""
                fi
        fi
fi

if [ $dolasttime -eq 1 ]
then
    mv -f "${Nfile}" "${Ofile}"
    mv -f "${Afile}" "${Afile}".$(date +%Y.%02m.%02d)
else
    rm -f "${Nfile}"
    mv -f "${Afile}" "${Afile}".$(date +%Y.%02m.%02d).tmp
fi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Senulis, Joseph A
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 3:18 PM
> To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
> Subject: SUMMARY: audit log file maintenance
>
> Hi,
> I only got one response on this, from Spider.Boardman. Although he
> was addressing a slightly different issue, his code suggested some
> clarifications in my thinking. In any event, we will not use
> auditlogtrim. Instead, we will be rolling over the audit log file weekly
> and deleting logs older than several weeks, relying on our backups to
> restore those older logs when needed.
> --Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Senulis, Joseph A
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 9:48 AM
> To: 'tru64-unix-managers_at_ornl.gov'
> Subject: audit log file maintenance
>
> Hi,
> What is the recommended method for maintaining the logs in
> /var/audit. I didn't see anything in the archives and the documentation
> is less than helpful.
>
> When the audit system is configured, a cron job runs
> /usr/lbin/auditlogtrim, every other month in our case. However, it
> doesn't seem to do much except roll over the log file, use up a lot of CPU
> and generate extra files. On some systems, it may run for a couple of
> days. Additionally, I have files that are more than two months old that
> never get deleted. (Aside: auditlogtrim contains code to delete old
> files, but the loop that supposedly removes files, which starts:
>
> AUDIT_TOOL="/usr/sbin/audit_tool"
> . . . . .
> FILES_TO_RM=$($AUDIT_TOOL -j $LAST_KEPT_EVENT_DATE $LOG_FILE) 2>>/dev/null
>
> don't seem to do anything. I do note that a man audit_tool does not list
> -j as being a valid option.)
>
> Rather than continue to trace the code, I was wondering if there was
> a better way to do things. My current thinking is to just roll over the
> log file periodically, perhaps weekly or monthly, and then just delete
> files older than a reasonable number of months. It would mean that I
> would have to work with multiple audit files when reviewing them, but that
> seems to be the case anyway.
>
> Any suggestions? I will summarize, although it may be a bit while I
> try out the suggestions. Thanks.
> --Joe
Received on Mon Feb 03 2003 - 17:28:39 NZDT

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