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.Dd January 24, 2004 .Dt AUDITD 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm auditd .Nd audit log management daemon .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm auditd .Op Fl dhs .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm daemon responds to requests from the audit(1) utility and notifications from the kernel. It manages the resulting audit log files and specified log file locations.
p The options are as follows: l -tag -width Ds t Fl d Starts the daemon in debug mode - it will not daemonize. t Fl h Specifies that if auditing cannot be performed as specified, the system should halt (panic). Normally, the system will attempt to proceed - although individual processes may be stopped (see the -s option). t Fl s Specifies that individual processes should stop rather than perform operations that may cause audit records to be lost due to log file full conditions .El .Sh NOTE
p To assure uninterrupted audit support, the .Nm auditd daemon should not be started and stopped manually. Instead, the .Xr audit 8 command should be used to inform the daemon to change state/configuration after altering the
a audit_control file.
p
Sending a SIGHUP to a running
.Nm auditd
daemon will force it to exit.
Sending a SIGTERM to a running
.Nm auditd
daemon will force it to exit.
.Sh FILES
l -tag -width "/var/audit" -compact t Pa /var/audit Default directory for storing audit log files.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr audit 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.