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+# NOTES:
+# This slackbuild won't do much unless you rebuild your kernel with audit enabled.
+# Optionally you can enable syscall-level audit.
+#
+# RULES:
+# Some example rulesets are available at /usr/doc/audit-2.0.4/contrib
+# stig.rules is an example ruleset for systems that are subject to the US Department of Defense
+# UNIX STIG audit requirement, although I read recently on the gov-sec@ Redhat list that
+# they hadn't been updating it religiously.
+#
+# ROTATION:
+# The audit log (/var/log/audit/audit.log) is rotated on a size basis automatically by auditd.
+# Periodic rotation (i.e. logrotate) is a bad idea for audit, since an attacker could trigger a
+# common event rapidly to exhaust log space, then do something nefarious that would go unaudited.
+# This package uses the default rotation size of 8MB.
+