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.Dd January 24, 2004 .Dt AUDIT 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm audit .Nd audit management utility .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm audit .Op Fl nst .Op Ar file .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility controls the state of the audit system. The optional .Ar file operand specifies the location of the audit control input file (default
a /etc/security/audit_control ) .
p The options are as follows: l -tag -width Ds t Fl 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. t Fl s Specifies that the audit system should [re]synchronize its configuration from the audit control file. A new log file will be created. t Fl t Specifies that the audit system should terminate. Log files are closed and renamed to indicate the time of the shutdown. .El .Sh NOTES The .Xr auditd 8 daemon must already be running. .Sh FILES l -tag -width "/etc/security/audit_control" -compact t Pa /etc/security/audit_control Default audit policy file used to configure the auditing system. .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr audit_control 5 , .Xr auditd 8 .Sh AUTHORS This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. Additional authors include Wayne Salamon, Robert Watson, and SPARTA Inc.
p The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems. .Sh 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.