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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