PRAUDIT(1)		  BSD General Commands Manual		    PRAUDIT(1)

NAME
     praudit — print the contents of audit trail files

SYNOPSIS
     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 speci‐
     fied, 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, numeric form.  This option is
	     exclusive from -s.

     -s      Prints the tokens in their short form.  Short text representa‐
	     tions for record and event type are displayed.  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 long form.  Events are displayed as per their descrip‐
     tions 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 divi‐
     sion 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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