Maintenance Commands                                    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 direc-
           tory.

     -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  posi-
     tive integer upon failure.

FILES
     /etc/security/audit_user

     /etc/security/audit_control

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | SUNWcsu                     |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|

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

SunOS 5.8            Last change: 6 May 1993                    1

Maintenance Commands                                    audit(1M)

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.

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