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audit(1M)

NAME

audit − control the behavior of the audit daemon

SYNOPSIS

audit −n|−s|−t

DESCRIPTION

The audit command is the general administrator’s interface to maintaining the audit trail.  The audit daemon may be notified to read the contents of the audit_control(4) file and re-initialize the current audit directory to the first directory listed in the audit_control file or to open a new audit file in the current audit directory specified in the audit_control file as last read by the audit daemon.  The audit daemon may also be signaled to close the audit trail and disable auditing. 

OPTIONS

−n Signal audit daemon to close the current audit file and open a new audit file in the current audit directory. 

−s Signal audit daemon to read audit control file.  The audit daemon stores the information internally. 

−t Signal audit daemon to close the current audit trail file, disable auditing and die. 

DIAGNOSTICS

The audit command will exit with 0 upon success and a positive integer upon failure. 

FILES

/etc/security/audit_user

/etc/security/audit_control

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability SUNWcsu

SEE ALSO

bsmconv(1M), praudit(1M), audit(2), audit_control(4), audit_user(4), attributes(5)

NOTES

The functionality described in this man page is available only if the Basic Security Module (BSM) has been enabled.  See bsmconv(1M) for more information. 

This command does not modify a process’s preselection mask.  It only affects which audit directories are used for audit data storage and to specify the minimum size free. 

SunOS 5.6  —  Last change: 6 May 1993

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