Cleanup of /var/asl/data/audit/

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Cleanup of /var/asl/data/audit/

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Hi,

On a heavy server it is filling up too quickly /var/asl/data/audit/ and I can have gigabytes of data and I see it not take empty after a while so in days I get 20-30GB. How can I cleanup? Is there a command in mod_sec or ASL ?
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Re: Cleanup of /var/asl/data/audit/

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Hmmm..although mine isn't big, the sheer number of files in there is causing a problem for me and I would certainly like to get control of this.

I thought this setting in /etc/asl/config might be related:

ASL_DB_RETENTION="5 days"

But it is not -- that's for the DB only from the looks of things (since I have 16 days worth in the audit directory, and given it has "DB" not "audit" in the variable name! ).
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Re: Cleanup of /var/asl/data/audit/

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This is the setting that controls how long the audit data is kept for WAF events:

https://www.atomicorp.com/wiki/index.ph ... LEAN_ALERT
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Re: Cleanup of /var/asl/data/audit/

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ooh, a new one on me. Thanks.
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Re: Cleanup of /var/asl/data/audit/

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I really wish they would store this data in a database ... the number of files is eating up our inodes...
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