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NAME

auditdistd — Audit trail files distribution daemon

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

The auditdistd daemon is responsible for distributing audit trail files over a TCP/IP network in a secure and reliable way.

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

-c config: Specify an alternative location of the configuration file. The default location is /etc/security/auditdistd.conf. Note: the configuration file may contain passwords. Care should be taken to configure proper permissions on this file (eg. 0600).
-d: Print or log debugging information. This option can be specified multiple times to raise the verbosity level.
-F: Start the auditdistd daemon in the foreground. By default auditdistd starts in the background.
-h: Print the auditdistd usage message.
-l: Start in a launchd-friendly mode, ie. do not use daemon(3).
-P pidfile: Specify an alternative location of a file where main process PID will be stored. The default location is /var/run/auditdistd.pid.

Exit status is 0 on success, or one of the values described in sysexits(3) on failure.

The auditdistd was developed by Pawel Jakub Dawidek ⟨pawel@dawidek.net⟩ under sponsorship of the FreeBSD Foundation.