Open-AudIT

I ran into a wget error "Argument list too long" when running audit_linux.sh on a server with a lot of log files & other info. The error is on line 2118 of audit_linux.sh

The original code that causes the error:

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oa_audit_result="'$($oa_cat $ReportFile)'"
$oa_wget $oa_wget_certificates --delete-after --post-data="submit=submit&add=$oa_audit_result" $non_ie_page
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I switched wget to using --post-file and that fixed it as --post-file doesn't run into the same command line argument length limit as --post-data does. Here's the code:

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echo "submit=submit&add=" | cat - $ReportFile > /tmp/oareport.out && mv /tmp/oareport.out $ReportFile
$oa_wget $oa_wget_certificates --delete-after --post-file=$ReportFile $non_ie_page
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Thanks for the example. I actually saw this a while back and I think I messed around with the --post-file option but never got it to work for some reason. I bet it was something stupid I was doing...lol. Anyways, I did it a little differently because I hate creating temporary files

Now I just have it doing ...

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$oa_sed -i '1s/^/submit=submit\&add=/' "$ReportFile"
$oa_wget $oa_wget_certificates --delete-after --post-file="$ReportFile" $non_ie_page
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You must have a large amount of log files for that to cause this...haha. Anyways, I thought this would allow me to audit all packages on my machine now but even though they all end up in the report file before being submitted, only a few packages actually show up once it gets entered in Open-AudIT. Not too sure what's going on there, kinda wish it would've worked now.

Btw - I keep an updated script at http://chadsikorra.com/audit_linux.sh if you want one with the changes in it already. I've fixed a few issues since it went into SVN, but not too much.

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OS's: Windows XP/2003/2008/2008 R2/Vista/7, Debian
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I found it easier to prepend required POST arguments to Result file while starting to create it. Patch here: [url]http://www.gmc.lt/~kaspar/open-audit-wget-fix.diff[/url].