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@@ -29,46 +29,35 @@
.\"
.\" @APPLE_BSD_LICENSE_HEADER_END@
.\"
-.\" $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/bin/auditd/auditd.8#9 $
+.\" $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/bin/auditd/auditd.8#12 $
.\"
-.Dd January 24, 2004
+.Dd October 2, 2006
.Dt AUDITD 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm auditd
.Nd audit log management daemon
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm auditd
-.Op Fl dhs
+.Nm
+.Op Fl d
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
-daemon responds to requests from the audit(1) utility and notifications
-from the kernel. It manages the resulting audit log files and specified
+daemon responds to requests from the
+.Xr audit 8
+utility and notifications
+from the kernel.
+It manages the resulting audit log files and specified
log file locations.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
-.Bl -tag -width Ds
+.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl d
-Starts the daemon in debug mode - it will not daemonize.
+Starts the daemon in debug mode \[em] it will not daemonize.
.El
-.Pp
-The historical
-.Fl h
-and
-.Fl s
-flags are now configured using
-.Xr audit_control 5
-policy flags
-.Dv ahlt
-and
-.Dv cnt ,
-and are no longer available as arguments to
-.Xr auditd 8 .
.Sh NOTE
-.Pp
To assure uninterrupted audit support, the
-.Nm auditd
+.Nm
daemon should not be started and stopped manually.
Instead, the
.Xr audit 8
@@ -78,28 +67,51 @@ the
.Pa audit_control
file.
.Pp
-.\" Sending a SIGHUP to a running
-.\" .Nm auditd
+.\" Sending a
+.\" .Dv SIGHUP
+.\" to a running
+.\" .Nm
.\" daemon will force it to exit.
-Sending a SIGTERM to a running
-.Nm auditd
+Sending a
+.Dv SIGTERM
+to a running
+.Nm
daemon will force it to exit.
.Sh FILES
-.Bl -tag -width "/var/audit" -compact
+.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /var/audit" -compact
.It Pa /var/audit
Default directory for storing audit log files.
.El
+.Sh COMPATIBILITY
+The historical
+.Fl h
+and
+.Fl s
+flags are now configured using
+.Xr audit_control 5
+policy flags
+.Cm ahlt
+and
+.Cm cnt ,
+and are no longer available as arguments to
+.Nm .
.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr audit 4 ,
+.Xr audit_control 5 ,
.Xr audit 8
+.Sh HISTORY
+The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
+division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004.
+It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
+the OpenBSM distribution.
.Sh AUTHORS
+.An -nosplit
This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
-Additional authors include Wayne Salamon, Robert Watson, and SPARTA Inc.
+Additional authors include
+.An Wayne Salamon ,
+.An Robert Watson ,
+and SPARTA Inc.
.Pp
The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
-.Sh HISTORY
-The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
-division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc. in 2004.
-It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
-the OpenBSM distribution.
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