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update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults
Job for auditd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status auditd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript auditd, action "start" failed.
● auditd.service - Security Auditing Service
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/auditd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-12-22 09:37:54 EST; 7ms ago
  Process: 25689 ExecStartPost=/sbin/auditctl -R /etc/audit/audit.rules (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 25685 ExecStart=/sbin/auditd -n (code=exited, status=6)
 Main PID: 25685 (code=exited, status=6)

Dec 22 09:37:54 ubuntu-server auditctl[25689]: pid 0
Dec 22 09:37:54 ubuntu-server auditctl[25689]: rate_limit 0
Dec 22 09:37:54 ubuntu-server auditctl[25689]: backlog_limit 320
Dec 22 09:37:54 ubuntu-server auditctl[25689]: lost 23
Dec 22 09:37:54 ubuntu-server auditctl[25689]: backlog 0
Dec 22 09:37:54 ubuntu-server auditctl[25689]: backlog_wait_time 15000
Dec 22 09:37:54 ubuntu-server systemd[1]: auditd.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=6/NOTCONFIGURED
Dec 22 09:37:54 ubuntu-server systemd[1]: Failed to start Security Auditing Service.
Dec 22 09:37:54 ubuntu-server systemd[1]: auditd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Dec 22 09:37:54 ubuntu-server systemd[1]: auditd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
dpkg: error processing package auditd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
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