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AUDIT(8) System Manager's Manual AUDIT(8) NAME audit -- audit management utility SYNOPSIS audit -e | -i | -n | -s | -t DESCRIPTION The audit utility controls the state of the audit system. One of the fol- lowing flags is required as an argument to audit: -e Forces the audit system to immediately remove audit log files that meet the expiration criteria specified in the audit control file without doing a log rotation. -i Initializes and starts auditing. This option is currently for Mac OS X only and requires auditd(8) to be configured to run under launchd(8). -n Forces the audit system to close the existing audit log file and rotate to a new log file in a location specified in the audit con- trol file. Also, audit log files that meet the expiration criteria specified in the audit control file will be removed. -s Specifies that the audit system should [re]synchronize its configu- ration from the audit control file. A new log file will be cre- ated. -t Specifies that the audit system should terminate. Log files are closed and renamed to indicate the time of the shutdown. NOTES The auditd(8) daemon must already be running. Optionally, it can be con- figured to be started on-demand by launchd(8) (Mac OS X only). The audit utility requires audit administrator privileges for successful operation. FILES /etc/security/audit_control Audit policy file used to configure the audit- ing system. SEE ALSO audit(4), audit_control(5), auditd(8), launchd(8)(Mac OS X) HISTORY The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security di- vision of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. in 2004. It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for the OpenBSM distribution. AUTHORS This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research divi- sion of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. Additional au- thors include Wayne Salamon, Robert Watson, and SPARTA Inc. The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems. FreeBSD ports 15.1 July 25, 2015 AUDIT(8)
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