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AUDITCTL(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual AUDITCTL(2)
NAME
auditctl - configure system audit parameters
SYNOPSIS
#include <bsm/audit.h>
int
auditctl(const char *path);
DESCRIPTION
The auditctl() system call directs the kernel to open a new audit trail
log file. It requires an appropriate privilege. The auditctl() system
call opens new files, but auditon(2) is used to disable the audit log.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the
value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
error.
ERRORS
The auditctl() system call will fail if:
[EINVAL] The path is invalid.
[EPERM] The process does not have sufficient permission to
complete the operation.
SEE ALSO
auditon(2), libbsm(3), auditd(8)
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.
AUTHORS
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.
The Basic Security Module (BSM) interface to audit records and audit
event stream format were defined by Sun Microsystems.
This manual page was written by Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>.
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6 April 19, 2005 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p6