Not trapping 'symlink' system call

Quoted 2 lines · Eric Howard

I have been tasked to generate test cases to validate the proper execution of particular syscall audit flags.

I think HP open sourced a test suite that tests the audit system:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/audit-test

Quoted 7 lines

In most cases I have succeeded in triggering audit log entries. However, I have been unable to trigger audit entries for the 'symlink call' My test cases are generated by a shell script that execute commands to trigger the relevant calls. In my test case I created a hard-link and a soft-link using /bin/ln. Running strace indicated that the syscall was definitely made but 'ausearch -sc symlink' shows nothing. I am using audit-1.0.15-3.EL4. Any insight into this problem would be appreciated.

Looking at the syscalls, it should trigger on something like:

auditctl -a always,exit -S symlink

Or were you testing it another way?

-Steve