audit_request_status3
Request status of the audit system
Usage
#include <libaudit.h>
int audit_request_status(int fd);"
Overview
audit_request_status requests that the kernel send status structure describing various settings on the descriptor given in fd. The audit_status structure is as follows:
struct audit_status {
__u32 mask; /* Bit mask for valid entries */
__u32 enabled; /* 1 = enabled, 0 = disabled */
__u32 failure; /* Failure-to-log action */
__u32 pid; /* pid of auditd process */
__u32 rate_limit; /* messages rate limit (per second) */
__u32 backlog_limit; /* waiting messages limit */
__u32 lost; /* messages lost */
__u32 backlog; /* messages waiting in queue */
};
Return value
The return value is <= 0 on error, otherwise it is the netlink sequence id number. This function can have any error that sendto would encounter.
Releases
10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 2 times.