1audit(1M) System Administration Commands audit(1M)
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6 audit - control the behavior of the audit daemon
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9 audit -n | -s | -t | -v [path]
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13 The audit command is the system administrator's interface to maintain‐
14 ing the audit trail. The audit daemon can be notified to read the con‐
15 tents of the audit_control(4) file and re-initialize the current audit
16 directory to the first directory listed in the audit_control file or to
17 open a new audit file in the current audit directory specified in the
18 audit_control file, as last read by the audit daemon. Reading
19 audit_control also causes the minfree and plugin configuration lines to
20 be re-read and reset within auditd. The audit daemon can also be sig‐
21 naled to close the audit trail and disable auditing.
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24 -n Notify the audit daemon to close the current audit file and
25 open a new audit file in the current audit directory.
26 -s Notify the audit daemon to read the audit control file. The
29 audit daemon stores the information internally. If the audit
30 daemon is not running but audit has been enabled by means of
31 bsmconv(1M), the audit daemon is started.
32 -t Direct the audit daemon to close the current audit trail
35 file, disable auditing, and die. Use -s to restart auditing.
36 -v path Verify the syntax for the audit control file stored in path.
39 The audit command displays an approval message or outputs
40 specific error messages for each error found.
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44 The audit command will exit with 0 upon success and a positive integer
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48 o /etc/security/audit_user
49 o /etc/security/audit_control
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53 See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
54 ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
59 │ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
60 ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
61 │Availability │SUNWcsu │
62 ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
63 │Stability │Evolving │
64 └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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67 bsmconv(1M), praudit(1M), audit(2), audit_control(4), audit_user(4),
68 attributes(5)
69 See the section on Solaris Auditing in System Administration Guide:
72 Security Services.
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75 The functionality described in this man page is available only if the
76 Solaris Auditing feature has been enabled. See bsmconv(1M) for more
77 information.
78 The audit command does not modify a process's preselection mask. It
81 functions are limited to the following:
82 o affects which audit directories are used for audit data
84 storage;
85 o specifies the minimum free space setting;
87 o resets the parameters supplied by means of the plugin direc‐
89 tive.
90 For the -s option, audit validates the audit_control syntax and dis‐
93 plays an error message if a syntax error is found. If a syntax error
94 message is displayed, the audit daemon does not re-read audit_control.
95 Because audit_control is processed at boot time, the -v option is pro‐
96 vided to allow syntax checking of an edited copy of audit_control.
97 Using -v, audit exits with 0 if the syntax is correct; otherwise, it
98 returns a positive integer.
99 The -v option can be used in any zone, but the -t, -s, and -n options
102 are valid only in local zones and, then, only if the perzone audit pol‐
103 icy is set. See auditd(1M) and auditconfig(1M) for per-zone audit con‐
104 figuration.
105SunOS 5.11 16 Apr 2008 audit(1M)