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30.Dd August 4, 2009
31.Dt PRAUDIT 1
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm praudit
35.Nd "print the contents of audit trail files"
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm
38.Op Fl lnpx
39.Op Fl r | s
40.Op Fl d Ar del
41.Op Ar
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm
45utility prints the contents of the audit trail files to the standard output in
46human-readable form.
47If no
48.Ar file
49argument is specified, the standard input is used
50by default.
51.Pp
52The options are as follows:
53.Bl -tag -width indent
54.It Fl d Ar del
55Specifies the delimiter.
56The default delimiter is the comma.
57.It Fl l
58Prints the entire record on the same line.
59If this option is not specified,
60every token is displayed on a different line.
61.It Fl n
62Do not convert user and group IDs to their names but leave in their
63numeric forms.
64.It Fl p
65Specify this option if input to
66.Nm
67is piped from the
68.Xr tail 1
69utility.
70This causes
71.Nm
72to sync to the start of the next record.
73.It Fl r
74Prints the records in their raw, numeric form.
75This option is exclusive from
76.Fl s .
77.It Fl s
78Prints the tokens in their short form.
79Short text representations for
80record and event type are displayed.
81This option is exclusive from
82.Fl r .
83.It Fl x
84Print audit records in the XML output format.
85.El
86.Pp
87If the raw or short forms are not specified, the default is to print the tokens
88in their long form.
89Events are displayed as per their descriptions given in
90.Pa /etc/security/audit_event ;
91UIDs and GIDs are expanded to their names;
92dates and times are displayed in human-readable format.
93.Sh FILES
94.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/security/audit_control" -compact
95.It Pa /etc/security/audit_class
96Descriptions of audit event classes.
97.It Pa /etc/security/audit_event
98Descriptions of audit events.
99.El
100.Sh SEE ALSO
101.Xr auditreduce 1 ,
102.Xr audit 4 ,
103.Xr auditpipe 4 ,
104.Xr audit_class 5 ,
105.Xr audit_event 5
106.Sh HISTORY
107The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
108division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004.
109It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
110the OpenBSM distribution.
111.Sh AUTHORS
112.An -nosplit
113This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
114of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
115Additional authors include
116.An Wayne Salamon ,
117.An Robert Watson ,
118and SPARTA Inc.
119.Pp
120The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
121stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
122