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Restarting auditd service gives dependency error

I am trying to configure auditing for docker daemon as follows:

Add the line below to the /etc/audit/audit.rules file: 

-w /usr/bin/dockerd -k docker

Then, restart the audit daemon using the following command: 

service auditd restart

This gives the following error: 

Failed to restart auditd.service: Operation refused, unit auditd.service may be requested by dependency only.

Using systemctl also doesn't work. Is there a workaround or a fix for this?

Solution

  • Updating RefuseManualStop to no in the /usr/lib/systemd/system/auditd.service 

    RefuseManualStop=no

    Then reload the daemon as follows: 

    systemctl daemon-reload