audisp-syslog command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

audisp-syslog: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: audisp-syslog: command not found

Solutions to audisp-syslog: command not found

How To Fix audisp-syslog: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu audisp-syslog is provided by auditd package.

auditd is:

The audit package contains the user space utilities for storing and searching the audit records generated by the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel.

Also contains the audit dispatcher “audisp”.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install auditd

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install auditd.

sudo apt -y install auditd

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install auditd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix audisp-syslog command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.