PRAUDIT(1)                  General Commands Manual                 PRAUDIT(1)

NAME
     praudit – print the contents of audit trail files

SYNOPSIS (NOW DEPRECATED)
     praudit [-lnpx] [-r | -s] [-d del] [file ...]

DESCRIPTION
     The praudit utility prints the contents of the audit trail files to the
     standard output in human-readable form.  If no file argument is
     specified, the standard input is used by default.

     The options are as follows:

     -d del  Specifies the delimiter.  The default delimiter is the comma.

     -l      Prints the entire record on the same line.  If this option is not
             specified, every token is displayed on a different line.

     -n      Do not convert user and group IDs to their names but leave in
             their numeric forms.

     -p      Specify this option if input to praudit is piped from the tail(1)
             utility.  This causes praudit to sync to the start of the next
             record.

     -r      Prints the records in their raw form.  Show records and event
             types in a numeric form (also known as raw form).  This option is
             exclusive from -s.

     -s      Prints the records in their short form. Show records and events
             in a short textual representation.  This option is exclusive from
             -r.

     -x      Print audit records in the XML output format.

     If the raw or short forms are not specified, the default is to print the
     tokens in their raw form.  Events are displayed as per their descriptions
     given in /etc/security/audit_event; UIDs and GIDs are expanded to their
     names; dates and times are displayed in human-readable format.

FILES
     /etc/security/audit_class        Descriptions of audit event classes.
     /etc/security/audit_event        Descriptions of audit events.

SEE ALSO
     auditreduce(1), audit(4), auditpipe(4), audit_class(5), audit_event(5)

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.

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