1.\" Copyright (c) 2012 The FreeBSD Foundation 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This documentation was written by Pawel Jakub Dawidek under sponsorship 5.\" from the FreeBSD Foundation. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" $FreeBSD$ 29.\" 30.Dd March 5, 2012 31.Dt AUDITDISTD 8 32.Os 33.Sh NAME 34.Nm auditdistd 35.Nd "Audit trail files distribution daemon" 36.Sh SYNOPSIS 37.Nm 38.Op Fl dFhl 39.Op Fl c Ar config 40.Op Fl P Ar pidfile 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The 43.Nm 44daemon is responsible for distributing audit trail files over a TCP/IP network in 45a secure and reliable way. 46.Pp 47The 48.Nm 49daemon can be started with the following command line arguments: 50.Bl -tag -width ".Fl P Ar pidfile" 51.It Fl c Ar config 52Specify an alternative location of the configuration file. 53The default location is 54.Pa /etc/security/auditdistd.conf . 55Note: the configuration file may contain passwords. 56Care should be taken to configure proper permissions on this file 57.Li ( eg. 0600 ) . 58.It Fl d 59Print or log debugging information. 60This option can be specified multiple times to raise the verbosity 61level. 62.It Fl F 63Start the 64.Nm 65daemon in the foreground. 66By default 67.Nm 68starts in the background. 69.It Fl h 70Print the 71.Nm 72usage message. 73.It Fl l 74Start in a launchd-friendly mode, ie. do not use 75.Xr daemon 3 . 76.It Fl P Ar pidfile 77Specify an alternative location of a file where main process PID will be 78stored. 79The default location is 80.Pa /var/run/auditdistd.pid . 81.El 82.Sh FILES 83.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/security/auditdistd.conf" -compact 84.It Pa /etc/security/auditdistd.conf 85The configuration file for 86.Nm . 87.It Pa /var/run/auditdistd.pid 88The default location of the 89.Nm 90PID file. 91.El 92.Sh EXIT STATUS 93Exit status is 0 on success, or one of the values described in 94.Xr sysexits 3 95on failure. 96.Sh SEE ALSO 97.Xr sysexits 3 , 98.Xr audit 4 , 99.Xr auditdistd.conf 5 , 100.Xr auditd 8 101.Sh AUTHORS 102The 103.Nm 104was developed by 105.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq pawel@dawidek.net 106under sponsorship of the FreeBSD Foundation. 107