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39 .Nd audit log management daemon
46 daemon responds to requests from the
48 utility and notifications
50 It manages the resulting audit log files and specified
53 The options are as follows:
54 .Bl -tag -width indent
56 Starts the daemon in debug mode \[em] it will not daemonize.
59 To assure uninterrupted audit support, the
61 daemon should not be started and stopped manually.
65 should be used to inform the daemon to change state/configuration after altering
74 .\" daemon will force it to exit.
79 daemon will force it to exit.
81 .Bl -tag -width ".Pa /var/audit" -compact
83 Default directory for storing audit log files.
90 flags are now configured using
96 and are no longer available as arguments to
100 .Xr audit_control 5 ,
103 The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
104 division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004.
105 It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
106 the OpenBSM distribution.
109 This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
110 of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
111 Additional authors include
116 The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
117 stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.