AUDITDISTD(8)

💖 AUDITDISTD(8) — auditdistd, the audit trail files distribution daemon 🎀

okay so real talk, this page is from the System Manager's Manual and it's about a daemon called auditdistd and honestly? she's serving secure file courier realness ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

auditdistd [-dFhl] [-c config] [-P pidfile]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the auditdistd daemon's whole thing — her main character energy, if you will — is distributing audit trail files over a TCP/IP network, and doing it in a way that's both secure and reliable. no cap. 💅

The auditdistd daemon can be started with the following command line arguments:

• -c config — bestie, this lets you specify an alternative location of the configuration file. The default location is /etc/security/auditdistd.conf.

⚠️ note, and this one's important: the configuration file may contain passwords. So please, please take care to configure proper permissions on this file (eg. 0600). 🙈 don't leave your secrets out here looking a mess.

• -d — print or log debugging information. You can specify this option multiple times to raise the verbosity level. the way that stacks? iconic. 🔥
• -F — start the auditdistd daemon in the foreground. By default auditdistd starts in the background. 🧚
• -h — print the auditdistd usage message. short king behavior fr fr.
• -l — start in a launchd-friendly mode, ie. do not use daemon(3). lowkey niche but we love her. ⭐
• -P pidfile — specify an alternative location of a file where the main process PID will be stored. The default location is /var/run/auditdistd.pid. 🎀

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✨ FILES ✨

• /etc/security/auditdistd.conf — the configuration file for auditdistd. 💖
• /var/run/auditdistd.pid — the default location of the auditdistd PID file. 💖

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💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

Exit status is 0 on success, or one of the values described in sysexits(3) on failure. slay either way, but one of these is definitely the preferred outcome. 🌈

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

sysexits(3), audit(4), auditdistd.conf(5), auditd(8)

^(go read the friends too, they're all linked and they all matter 🫶)

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

The auditdistd was developed by Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pawel@dawidek.net> under sponsorship of the FreeBSD Foundation. we stan a sponsored open source moment. 🍓

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🦋 and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it up, no crumbs left

Debian · March 5, 2012 — mwah, that's the source and date, and that's the tea 💅✨