Manual page for audit_warn(1M)
audit_warn - audit daemon warning script
SYNOPSIS
/etc/security/audit_warn
[ option [ arguments ]]
AVAILABILITY
The functionality described in this man page is available only
if the Basic Security Module (BSM) has been enabled. See
bsmconv.1m
for more information.
DESCRIPTION
The
audit_warn
script processes warning or error messages from the audit daemon.
When a problem is encountered, the audit daemon,
auditd.1m
calls
audit_warn
with the appropriate arguments.
The
option
argument specifies the error type.
The system administrator can specify a list of mail recipients
to be notified when an audit_warn situation arises
by defining a mail alias called
audit_warn
in
aliases.4
The users that make up the
audit_warn
alias are typically the
audit
and
root
users.
OPTIONS
-
allhard count
-
Indicates that the hard limit for all filesystems has been exceeded
count
times.
The default action for this option is to send mail to the
audit_warn
alias only if the
count
is
1,
and to write a message to the machine console every time.
It is recommended that mail
not
be sent every time as this could result in a the saturation of the file system
that contains the mail spool directory.
allsoft
-
Indicates that the soft limit for all filesystems has been exceeded.
The default action for this option is to send mail to the
audit_warn
alias and to write a message to the machine console.
auditoff
-
Indicates that someone other than the audit daemon changed the system
audit state to something other than
AUC_AUDITING.
The audit daemon will have exited in this case.
The default action for this option is to send mail to the
audit_warn
alias and to write a message to the machine console.
ebusy
-
Indicates that the audit daemon is already running.
The default action for this option is to send mail to the
audit_warn
alias and to write a message to the machine console.
getacdir count
-
Indicates that there is a problem getting the directory list from
audit_control.4
The audit daemon will hang in a sleep loop until the file is fixed.
The default action for this option is to send mail to the
audit_warn
alias only if
count
is
1,
and to write a message to the machine console every time.
It is recommended that mail
not
be sent every time as this could result in a the saturation of the file system
that contains the mail spool directory.
hard filename
-
Indicates that the hard limit for the file has been exceeded.
The default action for this option is to send mail to the
audit_warn
alias and to write a message to the machine console.
nostart
-
Indicates that auditing could not be started.
The default action for this option is to send mail to the
audit_warn
alias and to write a message to the machine console.
Some administrators may prefer to modify
audit_warn
to reboot the system when this error occurs.
postsigterm
-
Indicates that an error occurred during the orderly shutdown of the
audit daemon.
The default action for this option is to send mail to the
audit_warn
alias and to write a message to the machine console.
soft filename
-
Indicates that the soft limit for
filename
has been exceeded.
The default action for this option is to send mail to the
audit_warn
alias and to write a message to the machine console.
tmpfile
-
Indicates that the temporary audit file already exists indicating a
fatal error.
The default action for this option is to send mail to the
audit_warn
alias and to write a message to the machine console.
SEE ALSO
audit.1m
auditd.1m
bsmconv.1m
aliases.4
audit.log.4
audit_control.4
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97