1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 2005-2006 Robert N. M. Watson 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 6.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 7.\" are met: 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.\" 14.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 15.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 16.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 17.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 18.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 19.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 20.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 21.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 22.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 23.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 24.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 25.\" 26.\" $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/man/auditctl.2#5 $ 27.\" 28.Dd April 19, 2005 29.Dt AUDITCTL 2 30.Os 31.Sh NAME 32.Nm auditctl 33.Nd "Configure system audit parameters" 34.Sh SYNOPSIS 35.In bsm/audit.h 36.Ft int 37.Fn auditctl "const char *path" 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39The 40.Fn auditctl 41system call directs the kernel to open a new audit trail log file. 42.Fn auditctl 43requires appropriate privilege. 44In the 45.Fx 46implementation, 47.Fn auditctl 48opens new files, but 49.Fn auditon 50is used to disable the audit log. 51In the Mac OS X implementation, passing 52.Va NULL 53to 54.Fn auditctl 55will disable the audit log. 56.Sh RETURN VALUES 57.Nm 58returns 0 on success, or returns -1 on failure, providing additional error 59information via 60.Va errno . 61.Sh SEE ALSO 62.Xr libbsm 3 , 63.Xr auditd 8 64.Sh AUTHORS 65This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division 66of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. 67Additional authors include Wayne Salamon, Robert Watson, and SPARTA Inc. 68.Pp 69The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event 70stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems. 71.Pp 72This manual page was written by 73.An Robert Watson Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org . 74.Sh HISTORY 75The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security 76division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. in 2004. 77It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for 78the OpenBSM distribution. 79