How To Install sos-audit on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sos-audit on CentOS 8.
What is sos-audit
Sos-audit provides configuration files for the Linux Auditing System to track the use of some commands capable of changing the configuration of the system. Currently storage and filesystem commands are audited.
We can use yum or dnf to install sos-audit on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sos-audit.
Install sos-audit on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sos-audit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install sos-audit
Install sos-audit on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install sos-audit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install sos-audit
How To Uninstall sos-audit on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the sos-audit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove sos-audit
sos-audit Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/audit/rules.d/40-sos-filesystem.rules
/etc/audit/rules.d/40-sos-storage.rules
/etc/sos/sos-audit.conf
/usr/lib/sos/audit/rules.d
/usr/lib/sos/audit/rules.d/40-sos-filesystem.rules
/usr/lib/sos/audit/rules.d/40-sos-storage.rules
/usr/sbin/sos-audit.sh
/usr/share/man/man5/sos-audit.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/sos-audit.sh.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sos-audit on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
