Manual page for AUDITON(2)
auditon - manipulate auditing
SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/label.h>
#include <sys/audit.h>
int auditon (condition)
int condition;
DESCRIPTION
The
auditon()
system call sets system auditing to the requested
condition
if and only if the current state of auditing allows that transition.
Legitimate values for
condition
are:
-
- AUC_UNSET
-
on/off has not been decided yet
- AUC_AUDITING
-
auditing is to be done
- AUC_NOAUDIT
-
auditing is not to be done
The permitted transitions are:
- Any condition may be changed back to itself.
- AUC_UNSET
may be changed to
AUC_AUDITING
or
AUC_NOAUDIT.
- AUC_AUDITING
may be changed to
AUC_NOAUDIT.
- AUC_NOAUDIT
may be changed to
AUC_AUDITING.
Once changed, it is not possible to get back to
AUC_UNSET.
Only the super-user may successfully execute this call.
RETURN VALUES
auditon()
returns
the old audit condition value
on success.
On failure,
it returns
-1
and sets
errno
to indicate the error.
ERRORS
- EINVAL
-
The
condition
specified is outside the range of valid values.
The current condition precludes the requested change.
- EPERM
-
Neither of the process's effective or real user
ID
is super-user.
SEE ALSO
audit.2
setuseraudit.2
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