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Offline ternor

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[SOLVED] An odd package called 'audit'
« on: January 10, 2013, 08:31:23 PM »
After reloading Synaptic earlier today I discovered that I have a package named 'audit' which should be updated.  If it is updated two other packages have to be installed.

This is what Synaptic says about the package:

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User-space tools for Linux 2.6 kernel auditing
The audit package contains the user space utilities for storing and searching
the audit records generate by the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel.

The kernel I am using is 3.2.18-pclos2.bfs.

Synaptic will allow me to remove the package but I have held off in case I shouldn't.  I installed from the 2012.08 mini iso and have not deliberately installed audit.

Do I need it?
« Last Edit: January 11, 2013, 02:21:49 PM by ternor »
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Offline kjpetrie

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Re: An odd package called 'audit'
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2013, 05:58:33 AM »
I don't know, but it does no harm. I suspect the description needs updating as the 2.6 kernel has become the 3 kernel, but probably is still the same.
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Re: An odd package called 'audit'
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2013, 02:21:12 PM »
OK.  Thanks.  When I updated a system created from a remaster of my working system Synaptic wanted to hold back updating of the flash-player plugin when I unmarked audit.  I have updated audit now on my working system even though the plugin was updated without it.
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