audit(8) BSD System Manager's Manual audit(8)
NAME
audit -- audit management utility
SYNOPSIS
audit -e | -i | -n | -s | -t
DESCRIPTION
The audit utility controls the state of the audit system. One of the
following flags is required as an argument to audit:
-e Forces the audit system to immediately remove audit log files
that meet the expiration criteria specified in the audit control
file without doing a log rotation.
-i Initializes and starts auditing. This option is currently for
Mac OS X only and requires auditd(8) to be configured to run
under launchd(8).
-n Forces the audit system to close the existing audit log file and
rotate to a new log file in a location specified in the audit
control file. Also, audit log files that meet the expiration
criteria specified in the audit control file will be removed.
-s Specifies that the audit system should [re]synchronize its con-
figuration from the audit control file. A new log file will be
created.
-t Specifies that the audit system should terminate. Log files are
closed and renamed to indicate the time of the shutdown.
NOTES
The auditd(8) daemon must already be running. Optionally, it can be con-
figured to be started on-demand by launchd(8) (Mac OS X only). The audit
utility requires audit administrator privileges for successful operation.
FILES
/etc/security/audit_control Audit policy file used to configure the
auditing system.
SEE ALSO
audit(4), audit_control(5), auditd(8), launchd(8)
HISTORY
The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. in 2004.
It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation
for the OpenBSM distribution.
AUTHORS
This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research divi-
sion of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. Additional
authors include Wayne Salamon, Robert Watson, and SPARTA Inc.
The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit
event stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
BSD January 29, 2009 BSD
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