[Info-vax] Creating an audit ACL/ACE

[IanD]

On Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 1:56:48 AM UTC+10, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

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> 
> Yeah, I know, OpenVMS knows zilch about distributed logging (syslog, 
> syslog-ng, etc) and can't make up its mind about its integrated logging 
> (OPERATOR.LOG and OPCOM messages, the audit database, the accounting 
> database, various and sundry scattered dump files and equally 
> scatter-shot .LOG files, integrating with T4 for 
> performance-monitoring, and the ever-so-archaic 
> write-a-stackdump-to-the-end-user implementation of the last-chance 
> handler, etc).  There's also no easy way to capture and process 
> specific events using ACEs and custom code, for that matter; you can't 
> program an ACE using (for instance) Lua; not short of that pesky 
> mailbox and capturing everything.  There's also no easy way to capture 
> I/O and there's no FUSE or analogous, which would have helped this 
> case; the system service interception is less-than-fun for this case.
> 
> Put another way, this whole area of OpenVMS is a complete and utter and 
> primitive mess, and it's been a mess for decades, and the resulting 
> messes will persist for the foreseeable future.
> 

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Lol, I laughed at the part where you said it "can't make it's mind up"! Just too funny, but also sadly true

Remind me of when I used to have to try and look after ACMS. SWLUP logs, acms logs (can't remember the actual name just now). Seemed to be a similar concept, no central place to find information and your hunting down stuff depending on where/when things failed