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30.Dd January 29, 2009
31.Dt AUDIT 8
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm audit
35.Nd audit management utility
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
38.Fl e | i | n | s | t
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
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.
50.It Fl i
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.
60Also, audit log files that meet the expiration criteria specified in the
61audit control file will be removed.
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.
108