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auditinglinuxprocessesdeepdive-boelen2025

2025-04-02

Auditing Linux processes: The Deep Dive!

by Michael Boelen

https://linux-audit.com/auditing-linux-processes/

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Linux
operating system
process
system administrator
ps command
ps -ef
ps aux
POSIX
BSD
init
parent process, child process
every process except init has a parent
/proc filesystem
/proc/pid/cmdline
command line
/proc/pid/exe
symlink
proc/pid/fd directory
file descriptor
socket
system call
fopen
proc/pid/fdinfo directory
open() flags: read-only, append, write, …
/proc/pid/syscall displays last performed syscall of a process
Linux audit framework
syscall ID
ausyscall
x86_64
quick and dirty syscall id lookup: unistd_64.h, grep for syscall ID
uname -m
uname command
/proc/pid/stack displays the stack of a process
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