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)

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.