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23 .Dd April 19, 2005
24 .Dt AUDITCTL 2
25 .Os
26 .Sh NAME
27 .Nm auditctl
28 .Nd "configure system audit parameters"
29 .Sh SYNOPSIS
30 .In bsm/audit.h
31 .Ft int
32 .Fn auditctl "const char *path"
33 .Sh DESCRIPTION
34 The
35 .Fn auditctl
36 system call directs the kernel to open a new audit trail log file.
37 It requires an appropriate privilege.
38 The
39 .Fn auditctl
40 system call
41 opens new files, but
42 .Xr auditon 2
43 is used to disable the audit log.
44 .Sh RETURN VALUES
45 .Rv -std
46 .Sh ERRORS
47 The
48 .Fn auditctl
49 system call will fail if:
50 .Bl -tag -width Er
51 .It Bq Er EINVAL
52 The path is invalid.
53 .It Bq Er EPERM
54 The process does not have sufficient permission to complete the
55 operation.
56 .El
57 .Sh SEE ALSO
58 .Xr auditon 2 ,
59 .Xr libbsm 3 ,
60 .Xr auditd 8
61 .Sh HISTORY
62 The OpenBSM implementation was created by McAfee Research, the security
63 division of McAfee Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.\& in 2004.
64 It was subsequently adopted by the TrustedBSD Project as the foundation for
65 the OpenBSM distribution.
66 .Sh AUTHORS
67 .An -nosplit
68 This software was created by McAfee Research, the security research division
69 of McAfee, Inc., under contract to Apple Computer Inc.
70 Additional authors include
71 .An Wayne Salamon ,
72 .An Robert Watson ,
73 and SPARTA Inc.
74 .Pp
75 The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit event
76 stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
77 .Pp
78 This manual page was written by
79 .An Robert Watson Aq rwatson@FreeBSD.org .