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AUDIT(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual AUDIT(2) NAME audit -- Commit a BSM audit record to the audit log SYNOPSIS #include <bsm/audit.h> int audit(const char *record, u_int length); DESCRIPTION audit() submits a completed BSM audit record to the system audit log. record is a pointer to the the specific event to be recorded and length is the size in bytes of the data to be written. RETURN VALUES Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS The audit() system call will fail and the data never written if: [EFAULT] The record argument is beyond the allocated address space of the process. [EINVAL] The token ID is invalid or length is larger than MAXAUDITDATA. [EPERM] The process does not have sufficient permission to complete the operation. SEE ALSO auditon(2), getauid(2), setauid(2), getaudit(2), setaudit(2), getaudit_addr(2), setaudit_addr(2), libbsm(3) AUTHORS This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research divi- sion of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. Additional authors 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. This manual page was written by Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>. HISTORY The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security division 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. BUGS The FreeBSD kernel does not fully validate that the argument passed is syntactically valid BSM. Submitting invalid audit records may corrupt the audit log. FreeBSD 6.2 April 19, 2005 FreeBSD 6.2
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