1.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Apple Inc. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 8.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 9.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 10.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 12.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 13.\" 3. Neither the name of Apple Inc. ("Apple") nor the names of 14.\" its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived 15.\" from this software without specific prior written permission. 16.\" 17.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY APPLE AND ITS CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY 18.\" EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED 19.\" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE 20.\" DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL APPLE OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY 21.\" DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES 22.\" (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; 23.\" LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND 24.\" ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT 25.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF 26.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/bin/audit/audit.8#13 $ 29.\" 30.Dd December 11, 2008 31.Dt AUDIT 8 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm audit 35.Nd audit management utility 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Fl 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 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. 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. 102