Auditd service fails to start at boot.

Issue

• The auditd service fails to start at boot and manually with systemctl.

• When auditd fails, it reports directive is not found in /etc/audit/auditd.conf configuration file.

  # journalctl -u auditd
  
  Jan 15 09:39:17 abchost auditd[7592]: Option root not found - line 20   
  Jan 15 09:39:17 abchost auditd[7592]: The audit daemon is exiting.
  Jan 15 09:39:17 abchost systemd[1]: auditd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=6
  Jan 15 09:39:17 abchost systemd[1]: auditd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.