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35 .Nd audit management utility
42 utility controls the state of the audit system.
43 One of the following flags is required as an argument to
45 .Bl -tag -width indent
47 Forces the audit system to immediately remove audit log files that
48 meet the expiration criteria specified in the audit control file without
51 Initializes and starts auditing.
52 This option is currently for Mac OS X only
55 to be configured to run under
58 Forces the audit system to close the existing audit log file and rotate to
59 a new log file in a location specified in the audit control file.
60 Also, audit log files that meet the expiration criteria specified in the
61 audit control file will be removed.
63 Specifies that the audit system should [re]synchronize its
64 configuration from the audit control file.
65 A new log file will be created.
67 Specifies that the audit system should terminate.
69 and renamed to indicate the time of the shutdown.
74 daemon must already be running.
75 Optionally, it can be configured to be started
81 utility requires audit administrator privileges for successful operation.
83 .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/security/audit_control" -compact
84 .It Pa /etc/security/audit_control
85 Audit policy file used to configure the auditing system.
93 The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
94 division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004.
95 It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
96 the OpenBSM distribution.
99 This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
100 of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
101 Additional authors include
106 The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
107 stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.