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28.\" $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/bin/audit/audit.8#13 $
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30.Dd December 11, 2008
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31.Dt AUDIT 8
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm audit
35.Nd audit management utility
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
| 31.Dt AUDIT 8
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm audit
35.Nd audit management utility
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
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38.Fl i | n | s | t
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39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm
42utility controls the state of the audit system.
43One of the following flags is required as an argument to
44.Nm :
45.Bl -tag -width indent
| 39.Sh DESCRIPTION
40The
41.Nm
42utility controls the state of the audit system.
43One of the following flags is required as an argument to
44.Nm :
45.Bl -tag -width indent
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| 46.It Fl e
47Forces the audit system to immediately remove audit log files that
48meet the expiration criteria specified in the audit control file without
49doing a log rotation.
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46.It Fl i
47Initializes and starts auditing.
48This option is currently for Mac OS X only
49and requires
50.Xr auditd 8
51to be configured to run under
52.Xr launchd 8 .
53.It Fl n
54Forces the audit system to close the existing audit log file and rotate to
55a new log file in a location specified in the audit control file.
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51Initializes and starts auditing.
52This option is currently for Mac OS X only
53and requires
54.Xr auditd 8
55to be configured to run under
56.Xr launchd 8 .
57.It Fl n
58Forces the audit system to close the existing audit log file and rotate to
59a new log file in a location specified in the audit control file.
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| 60Also, audit log files that meet the expiration criteria specified in the
61audit control file will be removed.
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56.It Fl s
57Specifies that the audit system should [re]synchronize its
58configuration from the audit control file.
59A new log file will be created.
60.It Fl t
61Specifies that the audit system should terminate.
62Log files are closed
63and renamed to indicate the time of the shutdown.
64.El
65.Sh NOTES
66The
67.Xr auditd 8
68daemon must already be running.
69Optionally, it can be configured to be started
70on-demand by
71.Xr launchd 8
72(Mac OS X only).
73The
74.Nm
75utility requires audit administrator privileges for successful operation.
76.Sh FILES
77.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/security/audit_control" -compact
78.It Pa /etc/security/audit_control
79Audit policy file used to configure the auditing system.
80.El
81.Sh SEE ALSO
82.Xr audit 4 ,
83.Xr audit_control 5 ,
84.Xr auditd 8 ,
85.Xr launchd 8
86.Sh HISTORY
87The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
88division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004.
89It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
90the OpenBSM distribution.
91.Sh AUTHORS
92.An -nosplit
93This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
94of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
95Additional authors include
96.An Wayne Salamon ,
97.An Robert Watson ,
98and SPARTA Inc.
99.Pp
100The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
101stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
| 62.It Fl s
63Specifies that the audit system should [re]synchronize its
64configuration from the audit control file.
65A new log file will be created.
66.It Fl t
67Specifies that the audit system should terminate.
68Log files are closed
69and renamed to indicate the time of the shutdown.
70.El
71.Sh NOTES
72The
73.Xr auditd 8
74daemon must already be running.
75Optionally, it can be configured to be started
76on-demand by
77.Xr launchd 8
78(Mac OS X only).
79The
80.Nm
81utility requires audit administrator privileges for successful operation.
82.Sh FILES
83.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/security/audit_control" -compact
84.It Pa /etc/security/audit_control
85Audit policy file used to configure the auditing system.
86.El
87.Sh SEE ALSO
88.Xr audit 4 ,
89.Xr audit_control 5 ,
90.Xr auditd 8 ,
91.Xr launchd 8
92.Sh HISTORY
93The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
94division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004.
95It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
96the OpenBSM distribution.
97.Sh AUTHORS
98.An -nosplit
99This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
100of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
101Additional authors include
102.An Wayne Salamon ,
103.An Robert Watson ,
104and SPARTA Inc.
105.Pp
106The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
107stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
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