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Date:      Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:37:27 +0400
From:      Andrey Chernov <ache@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d auditd
Message-ID:  <20060924183727.GA7823@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200609241731.k8OHV5mZ053132@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200609241731.k8OHV5mZ053132@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Sun, Sep 24, 2006 at 05:31:04PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> rwatson     2006-09-24 17:31:04 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     etc/rc.d             auditd 
>   Log:
>   Sleep for one second after calling audit -t to give the audit daemon a
>   chance to actually terminate the audit service and exit.  Otherwise, on
>   an rc.d/auditd restart, the new audit daemon instance may try to start
>   auditing while the previous session is still running.  Likewise, this
>   ensures a chance for auditd to terminate the audit trail at system
>   shutdown.

You can't be sure about 1 second (or any N seconds) and should choouse 
another method like pid file or pipe file or some sysctl value presence 
checking loop.

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