[Samba] Logging file creation with full_audit

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:20:34PM -0500, Darren Hildebrand wrote:
> On 15/06/2010 12:09 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:04:57AM -0500, Darren Hildebrand wrote:
>>    
>>> I'm trying to set up a samba server to audit only the file operations
>>> that I care about, which are create, modify, delete, and rename (for
>>> files and folders).  I've got the full_audit vfs module working well,
>>> except that I haven't been able to figure out what to set it to log (in
>>> the "full_audit:success" setting) to include file creation and
>>> modification.  If I log pwrite, then it floods the logs with many
>>> entries for every single file write, especially when writing large
>>> files.  I get almost 200 messages when writing a 10 MB file.  Is there
>>> something I can log to make it write a single entry on file creation or
>>> modification?  "Write" doesn't seem to log anything, but pwrite is far
>>> too verbose for my needs.
>>>      
>> We don't use "write" anymore - all writes go through pwrite.
>> You want to log "open", not "pwrite".
>>
>> Jeremy.
>>    
>
> Thanks, it looks like open is a lot closer to what I'm looking for.   
> Just one more question with that - it looks like "open" logs reads and  
> writes, where I'm really just concerned about writes.  I can see that  
> they're distinguished with the "r" and "w" near the end of the log line,  
> but is there any way to log only the "w" entries?  I'm sure I could come  
> up with a way to filter it using syslog as well, but I was hoping to be  
> able to not have them sent to syslog in the first place if there's a way  
> to do that.

Not without code changes to the audit module I'm afraid. What
you want is to log all opens with the O_CREAT flag set, but
the audit module isn't specific enough to do that. You'll have
to filter post logging I'm afraid (or change the "audit_open"
call to check for the O_CREAT flag in the "flags" variable
before logging).

Jeremy.