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35 .Nd audit log management daemon
42 daemon responds to requests from the
44 utility and notifications
46 It manages the resulting audit log files and specified
49 The options are as follows:
50 .Bl -tag -width indent
52 Starts the daemon in debug mode \[em] it will not daemonize.
54 This option is for when
56 is configured to start on-demand using
60 Optionally, the audit review group "audit" may be created.
62 users that are members of this group may read the audit trail log files.
64 To assure uninterrupted audit support, the
66 daemon should not be started and stopped manually.
70 should be used to inform the daemon to change state/configuration after altering
77 is started on-demand by
79 then auditing should only be started and stopped with
86 API for writing system log messages.
87 Therefore, only the audit administrator
88 and members of the audit review group will be able to read the
91 .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/security" -compact
93 Default directory for storing audit log files.
96 The directory containing the auditing configuration files
108 flags are now configured using
114 and are no longer available as arguments to
121 .Xr audit_control 5 ,
127 The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
128 division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004.
129 It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
130 the OpenBSM distribution.
133 This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
134 of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
135 Additional authors include
140 The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
141 stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.