cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d auditd

[Doug Barton]

Catching up on some old mail ...

Robert Watson wrote:
> rwatson     2006-09-24 17:31:04 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc/rc.d             auditd 
>   Log:
>   Sleep for one second after calling audit -t to give the audit daemon a
>   chance to actually terminate the audit service and exit.  Otherwise, on
>   an rc.d/auditd restart, the new audit daemon instance may try to start
>   auditing while the previous session is still running.  Likewise, this
>   ensures a chance for auditd to terminate the audit trail at system
>   shutdown.
>   
>   Perhaps more ideally, the script would wait synchronously for auditd to
>   exit rather than for an arbitrary but short period of time.
>   
>   MFC after:      3 days
>   Obtained from:  TrustedBSD Project
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.3       +1 -0      src/etc/rc.d/auditd
> 
> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/rc.d/auditd.diff?&r1=1.2&r2=1.3&f=h

Perhaps a better change would be:

/usr/sbin/audit -t
while : ; do
	if <something that indicates audit is not dead yet>; then
		echo 'Waiting for the audit system to terminate'
		sleep 1
	else
		break
	fi
done

hth,

Doug

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