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AUDISPD:(8)             System Administration Utilities            AUDISPD:(8)

NAME
       audispd - an event multiplexor
SYNOPSIS
       audispd  [-c <config_dir>].SHDESCRIPTION audispd is an audit event mul-
       tiplexor. It has to be started by the audit  daemon  in  order  to  get
       events.  It  takes  audit events and distributes them to child programs
       that want to analyze events in realtime. When the audit daemon receives
       a  SIGTERM or SIGHUP, it passes that signal to the dispatcher, too. The
       dispatcher in turn passes those signals to its child processes.
       The child programs install a configuration file in a plugins directory,
       /etc/audisp/plugins.d.  Filenames are not allowed to have more than one
       '.' in the name or it will be treated as a  backup  copy  and  skipped.
       Options  are  given one per line with an equal sign between the keyword
       and its value. The available options are as follows:

       active The options for this are yes or no.
       direction
              The option is dictated by the plugin.  In or out  are  the  only
              choices.  You  cannot  make  a plugin operate in a way it wasn't
              designed just by changing this option.This option is to  give  a
              clue  to the event dispatcher about which direction events flow.
              NOTE: inbound events are not supported yet.
       path   This is the absolute path to the plugin executable. In the  case
              of internal plugins, it would be the name of the plugin.
       type   This  tells  the  dispatcher  how  the  plugin  wants to be run.
              Choices are builtin and always.  Builtin should always be  given
              for  plugins  that  are  internal to the audit event dispatcher.
              These are af_unix and syslog. The option always should be  given
              for most if not all plugins. The default setting is always.
       args   This  allows  you to pass arguments to the child program. Gener-
              ally plugins do not take arguments and  have  their  own  config
              file  that  instructs them how they should be configured. At the
              moment, there is a limit of 2 args.
       format The valid options for this are binary and string.  Binary passes
              the  data exactly as the audit event dispatcher gets it from the
              audit daemon. The string option tells  the  dispatcher  to  com-
              pletely change the event into a string suitable for parsing with
              the audit parsing library. The default value is string.

FILES
       /etc/audisp/audispd.conf /etc/audisp/plugins.d
SEE ALSO
       audispd.conf(5), auditd(8).
AUTHOR
       Steve Grubb

Red Hat                            Sept 2007                       AUDISPD:(8)