The service `auditd` doesn't start at boot on a VMWare Virtual Machine whenever the system reboots with the service `/etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware-toolscfg` runs for a real VMware Tools configuration.

Issue

The service auditd doesn't start at boot on a VMWare Virtual Machine whenever the system reboots with the service /etc/rc.d/init.d/vmware-toolscfg runs for a real VMware Tools configuration.

If system is booted into runlevel 3, chkconfig is configured at the following settings.

#chkconfig --list auditd
auditd          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:off   4:on    5:on    6:off

And if in runlevel 5, following are the results after booting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

#chkconfig --list auditd
auditd          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on   4:on    5:off    6:off

Before rebooting the machine, the service vmware-toolscfg and auditd is running and chkconfig settings are fine as follows.

#chkconfig --list auditd
auditd          0:off   1:off   2:on    3:on   4:on    5:on    6:off