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.\" $P4: //depot/projects/trustedbsd/openbsm/bin/praudit/praudit.1#13 $
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.Dd November 5, 2006
.Dt PRAUDIT 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm praudit
.Nd "print the contents of audit trail files"
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl lpx
.Op Fl r | s
.Op Fl d Ar del
.Op Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility prints the contents of the audit trail files to the standard output in
human-readable form.
If no
.Ar file
argument is specified, the standard input is used
by default.
.Pp
The options are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl d Ar del
Specifies the delimiter.
The default delimiter is the comma.
.It Fl l
Prints the entire record on the same line.
If this option is not specified,
every token is displayed on a different line.
.It Fl p
Specify this option if input to
.Nm
is piped from the
.Xr tail 1
utility.
This causes
.Nm
to sync to the start of the next record.
.It Fl r
Prints the records in their raw, numeric form.
This option is exclusive from
.Fl s .
.It Fl s
Prints the tokens in their short form.
Short text representations for
record and event type are displayed.
This option is exclusive from
.Fl r .
.It Fl x
Print audit records in the XML output format.
.El
.Pp
If the raw or short forms are not specified, the default is to print the tokens
in their long form.
Events are displayed as per their descriptions given in
.Pa /etc/security/audit_event ;
UIDs and GIDs are expanded to their names;
dates and times are displayed in human-readable format.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/security/audit_control" -compact
.It Pa /etc/security/audit_class
Descriptions of audit event classes.
.It Pa /etc/security/audit_event
Descriptions of audit events.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr auditreduce 1 ,
.Xr audit 4 ,
.Xr auditpipe 4 ,
.Xr audit_class 5 ,
.Xr audit_event 5
.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
.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.