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AA-NOTIFY

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CONFIGURATION
BUGS
SEE ALSO

NAME

aa−notify − display information about logged AppArmor messages.

SYNOPSIS

aa-notify [option]

DESCRIPTION

aa-notify will display a summary or provide desktop notifications for AppArmor DENIED messages.

OPTIONS

aa-notify accepts the following arguments:
−p, −−poll

poll AppArmor logs and display desktop notifications. Can be used with ’−s’ option to display a summary on startup.

−−display $DISPLAY

set the DISPLAY environment variable to $DISPLAY (might be needed if sudo resets $DISPLAY)

−f FILE, −−file=FILE

search FILE for AppArmor messages

−l, −−since−last

show summary since last login.

−s NUM, −−since−days=NUM

show summary for last NUM of days.

−u USER, −−user=USER

user to drop privileges to when running privileged. When used with the −p option, this should be set to the user that will receive desktop notifications. This has no effect when running under sudo.

−w NUM, −−wait=NUM

wait NUM seconds before displaying notifications (for use with −p)

−v, −−verbose

show messages with summaries.

−h, −−help

displays a short usage statement.

CONFIGURATION

System-wide configuration for aa-notify is done via /etc/apparmor/notify.conf:

  # set to 'yes' to enable AppArmor DENIED notifications
  show_notifications="yes"
  # only people in use_group can use aa−notify
  use_group="admin"

Per-user configuration is done via ~/.apparmor/notify.conf:

  # set to 'yes' to enable AppArmor DENIED notifications
  show_notifications="yes"

BUGS

aa-notify needs to be able to read the logfiles containing the AppArmor DENIED messages.

If you find any additional bugs, please report them to Launchpad at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/apparmor/+filebug>.

SEE ALSO

apparmor(7)







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