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Note about disabling journald audit behavior
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#### I am seeing duplicate entries in syslog!

This is likely because you are running `journald` which is also reading audit events. To disable it you need to disable the functionality in `journald`.

```sh
sudo systemctl mask systemd-journald-audit.socket
```

## Thanks!

To Hardik Juneja, Arun Sori, Aalekh Nigam Aalekhn for the inspiration via https://github.com/mozilla/audit-go

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