AUDIT_WARN(5) File Formats Manual AUDIT_WARN(5)
NAME
audit_warn – alert when audit daemon issues warnings
DEPRECATION NOTICE
The audit(4) subsystem has been deprecated since macOS 11.0, disabled
since macOS 14.0, and WILL BE REMOVED in a future version of macOS.
Applications that require a security event stream should use the
EndpointSecurity(7) API instead.
On this version of macOS, you can re-enable audit(4) by renaming or
copying /etc/security/audit_control.example to
/etc/security/audit_control, re-enabling the system/com.apple.auditd
service by running launchctl enable system/com.apple.auditd as root, and
rebooting.
DESCRIPTION
The audit_warn script runs when auditd(8) generates warning messages.
The default audit_warn is a script whose first parameter is the type of
warning; the script appends its arguments to
/etc/security/audit_messages. Administrators may replace this script: a
more comprehensive one would take different actions based on the type of
warning. For example, a low-space warning could result in an email
message being sent to the administrator.
FILES
/etc/security/audit_warn
/etc/security/audit_messages
SEE ALSO
audit(4), 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.
macOS 15.2 March 17, 2004 macOS 15.2