Hi all,

I am using Linux Audit module to monitor file accesses. However, I want to extract what exactly was written to a specific file. I am catching the events belonging to write syscall, for example:

type=SYSCALL msg=audit(04/26/2018 15:11:33.568:307907) : arch=x86_64 syscall=write success=yes exit=37 a0=0x3 a1=0x1aee240 a2=0x25 a3=0x477 items=0 ppid=11376 pid=26771 auid=wajih uid=wajih gid=wajih euid=wajih suid=wajih fsuid=wajih egid=wajih sgid=wajih fsgid=wajih tty=pts1 ses=1 comm=a.out exe=/code/a.out key=(null)

I know the "a1" is the pointer to buffer being written; however, is there a way I can take that pointer and extract the exact string? In the example above I was writing "Hello world ...".

Thanks,

Wajih