[syslog-ng] Reg; Syslog-ng does not recognize the audit facility

Justin Kala justinkala at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 18:16:54 CET 2016


Also current operating system is Solaris 11 SPARC 64-bit

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Justin Kala <justinkala at gmail.com> wrote:

> Somehow facility 13 is unable to accept Audit Logs.
>  syslog-names.c does have audit facility.
> Please let me know what else can be done
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Scheidler, Balázs <
> balazs.scheidler at balabit.com> wrote:
>
>> It doesn't matter, the on wire format is the same. Syslog-ng on the
>> server prints the facility in debug mode.
>> On Jul 29, 2015 9:07 PM, "Justin Kala" <justinkala at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Bazsi
>>>
>>> We do not have syslog-ng agents on the sending server side .Using the
>>> capabilities of syslog.conf only where I put the line " audit.notice
>>> @Syslog-NG-server "
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Scheidler, Balázs <
>>> balazs.scheidler at balabit.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Syslog-ng does have a private facility registry to make the codes more
>>>> portable accross OS-es.  It is in syslog-names.c in the lib/ directory. Can
>>>> you check if audit is listed there?
>>>>
>>>> If it's not feel free to submit  a patch to add that.
>>>>
>>>> Also, on a related note, if syslog-ng doesnt match by facility code,
>>>> pls confirm that the message was indeed submitted with the facility code
>>>> you are expecting. You can do that by looking at raw syslog traffic (using
>>>> a sniffer or merely looking at syslog-ng debug output). There you will see
>>>> a number in brackets as the first thing in a message.
>>>>
>>>> E.g.
>>>>
>>>> <55>date host msg
>>>>
>>>> There 55 equals to 8 times facility plus the severity level, in this
>>>> example 6*8+7, eg. Facility 6, severity 7.
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>> Bazsi
>>>> On Jul 28, 2015 8:36 PM, "Evan Rempel" <erempel at uvic.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Then this needs to go back to whomever compiled the release of
>>>>> syslog-ng that you are using.
>>>>> Perhaps it was compiled on a different release of Solaris or
>>>>> something. Only the group that compiled the release can give you more
>>>>> answers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Evan.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 07/28/2015 11:08 AM, Justin Kala wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I see AUDIT facility defined in /usr/include/sys/syslog.h on syslog-ng
>>>>> server side and the sending server as well.
>>>>>
>>>>> #define LOG_KERN        (0<<3)  /* kernel messages */
>>>>> #define LOG_USER        (1<<3)  /* random user-level messages */
>>>>> #define LOG_MAIL        (2<<3)  /* mail system */
>>>>> #define LOG_DAEMON      (3<<3)  /* system daemons */
>>>>> #define LOG_AUTH        (4<<3)  /* security/authorization messages */
>>>>> #define LOG_SYSLOG      (5<<3)  /* messages generated internally by
>>>>> syslogd */
>>>>> #define LOG_LPR         (6<<3)  /* line printer subsystem */
>>>>> #define LOG_NEWS        (7<<3)  /* netnews subsystem */
>>>>> #define LOG_UUCP        (8<<3)  /* uucp subsystem */
>>>>> *#define LOG_AUDIT       (13<<3) /* audit subsystem */*
>>>>> #define LOG_CRON        (15<<3) /* cron/at subsystem */
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Evan Rempel <erempel at uvic.ca> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you look at the syslog facility definitions
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /usr/include/sys/syslog.h
>>>>>>
>>>>>> or
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /usr/include/syslog.h
>>>>>>
>>>>>> to see if audit is a defined facility?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/28/2015 09:32 AM, Justin Kala wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Evan..thanks for the reply but both sending and receiving servers
>>>>>> are same OS.. Solaris 10
>>>>>> On Jul 28, 2015 12:18 PM, "Evan Rempel" <erempel at uvic.ca> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, that is probably because the host where syslog-ng was compiled
>>>>>>> is a different OS than that where the "audit" facility log line was created.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For instance, on a Linux host, the syslog.h file from the system
>>>>>>> only has these facilities defined.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> CODE facilitynames[] =
>>>>>>>   {
>>>>>>>     { "auth", LOG_AUTH },
>>>>>>>     { "authpriv", LOG_AUTHPRIV },
>>>>>>>     { "cron", LOG_CRON },
>>>>>>>     { "daemon", LOG_DAEMON },
>>>>>>>     { "ftp", LOG_FTP },
>>>>>>>     { "kern", LOG_KERN },
>>>>>>>     { "lpr", LOG_LPR },
>>>>>>>     { "mail", LOG_MAIL },
>>>>>>>     { "mark", INTERNAL_MARK },          /* INTERNAL */
>>>>>>>     { "news", LOG_NEWS },
>>>>>>>     { "security", LOG_AUTH },           /* DEPRECATED */
>>>>>>>     { "syslog", LOG_SYSLOG },
>>>>>>>     { "user", LOG_USER },
>>>>>>>     { "uucp", LOG_UUCP },
>>>>>>>     { "local0", LOG_LOCAL0 },
>>>>>>>     { "local1", LOG_LOCAL1 },
>>>>>>>     { "local2", LOG_LOCAL2 },
>>>>>>>     { "local3", LOG_LOCAL3 },
>>>>>>>     { "local4", LOG_LOCAL4 },
>>>>>>>     { "local5", LOG_LOCAL5 },
>>>>>>>     { "local6", LOG_LOCAL6 },
>>>>>>>     { "local7", LOG_LOCAL7 },
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> with values of
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> /* facility codes */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_KERN        (0<<3)  /* kernel messages */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_USER        (1<<3)  /* random user-level messages */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_MAIL        (2<<3)  /* mail system */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_DAEMON      (3<<3)  /* system daemons */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_AUTH        (4<<3)  /* security/authorization messages */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_SYSLOG      (5<<3)  /* messages generated internally by
>>>>>>> syslogd */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_LPR         (6<<3)  /* line printer subsystem */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_NEWS        (7<<3)  /* network news subsystem */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_UUCP        (8<<3)  /* UUCP subsystem */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_CRON        (9<<3)  /* clock daemon */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_AUTHPRIV    (10<<3) /* security/authorization messages
>>>>>>> (private) */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_FTP         (11<<3) /* ftp daemon */
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>         /* other codes through 15 reserved for system use */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_LOCAL0      (16<<3) /* reserved for local use */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_LOCAL1      (17<<3) /* reserved for local use */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_LOCAL2      (18<<3) /* reserved for local use */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_LOCAL3      (19<<3) /* reserved for local use */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_LOCAL4      (20<<3) /* reserved for local use */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_LOCAL5      (21<<3) /* reserved for local use */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_LOCAL6      (22<<3) /* reserved for local use */
>>>>>>> #define LOG_LOCAL7      (23<<3) /* reserved for local use */
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> so there is no audit facility.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hope that explains it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 07/28/2015 09:08 AM, Justin Kala wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Syslog-ng is unable to recognize the facility audit. When I put
>>>>>>> filter as audit and restart syslog-ng it errors out. When I put the
>>>>>>> facility code as 13 ,it does not error on restarting the service but does
>>>>>>> not capture the syslog message received through this filter code  13 as
>>>>>>> well.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Please advise.
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Kaladhar
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Evan Rempel                                      erempel at uvic.ca
>>>>>>> Senior Systems Administrator                        250.721.7691
>>>>>>> Data Centre Services, University Systems, University of Victoria
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Evan Rempel                                      erempel at uvic.ca
>>>>>> Senior Systems Administrator                        250.721.7691
>>>>>> Data Centre Services, University Systems, University of Victoria
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Kaladhar
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Evan Rempel                                      erempel at uvic.ca
>>>>> Senior Systems Administrator                        250.721.7691
>>>>> Data Centre Services, University Systems, University of Victoria
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kaladhar
>>>
>>>
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>
>
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>



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