1.\" Copyright (c) 2004 Apple Computer, 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 Computer, 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/auditd/auditd.8#13 $ 29.\" 30.Dd October 2, 2006 31.Dt AUDITD 8 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm auditd 35.Nd audit log management daemon 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Op Fl d 39.Sh DESCRIPTION 40The 41.Nm 42daemon responds to requests from the 43.Xr audit 8 44utility and notifications 45from the kernel. 46It manages the resulting audit log files and specified 47log file locations. 48.Pp 49The options are as follows: 50.Bl -tag -width indent 51.It Fl d 52Starts the daemon in debug mode \[em] it will not daemonize. 53.El 54.Sh NOTE 55To assure uninterrupted audit support, the 56.Nm 57daemon should not be started and stopped manually. 58Instead, the 59.Xr audit 8 60command 61should be used to inform the daemon to change state/configuration after altering 62the 63.Pa audit_control 64file. 65.Pp 66.\" Sending a 67.\" .Dv SIGHUP 68.\" to a running 69.\" .Nm 70.\" daemon will force it to exit. 71Sending a 72.Dv SIGTERM 73to a running 74.Nm 75daemon will force it to exit. 76.Sh FILES 77.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /var/audit" -compact 78.It Pa /var/audit 79Default directory for storing audit log files. 80.El 81.Sh COMPATIBILITY 82The historical 83.Fl h 84and 85.Fl s 86flags are now configured using 87.Xr audit_control 5 88policy flags 89.Cm ahlt 90and 91.Cm cnt , 92and are no longer available as arguments to 93.Nm . 94.Sh SEE ALSO 95.Xr audit 4 , 96.Xr audit_control 5 , 97.Xr audit 8 98.Sh HISTORY 99The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security 100division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004. 101It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for 102the OpenBSM distribution. 103.Sh AUTHORS 104.An -nosplit 105This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division 106of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. 107Additional authors include 108.An Wayne Salamon , 109.An Robert Watson , 110and SPARTA Inc. 111.Pp 112The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event 113stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems. 114