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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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auditd — Control the Generation and Location of Audit Trail Files

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/auditd

Description

The auditd audit daemon controls the generation and location of audit trail files. When the Basic Security Module is enabled, the audit_control file is read at system startup and the auditd daemon is automatically started. See bsmconv(1M) for information on how to enable the Basic Security Module.

The /etc/security/audit_startup file is an executable script that is invoked as part of the startup sequence just before the execution of the audit daemon (see audit_startup(1M)). A default audit_startup script, shown below, automatically configures the event to class mappings and sets the audit policies during the BSM (Basic Security Module) package ...

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