audit_set_enabled(3) — Linux manual page

AUDIT_SET_ENABLED(3)         Linux Audit API        AUDIT_SET_ENABLED(3)

NAME

       audit_set_enabled - Enable or disable auditing

SYNOPSIS

       #include <libaudit.h>

       int audit_set_enabled(int fd, uint32_t enabled);

DESCRIPTION

       audit_set_enabled is used to control whether or not the audit
       system is active. When the audit system is enabled (enabled set
       to 1), every syscall will pass through the audit system to
       collect information and potentially trigger an event.

       If the audit system is disabled (enabled set to 0), syscalls do
       not enter the audit system and no data is collected. There may be
       some events generated by MAC subsystems like SE Linux even though
       the audit system is disabled. It is possible to suppress those
       events, too, by adding an audit rule with flags set to
       AUDIT_FILTER_EXCLUDE

RETURN VALUE

       The return value is <= 0 on error, otherwise it is the netlink
       sequence id number. This function can have any error that sendto
       would encounter.

SEE ALSO

       audit_add_rule_data(3), auditd(8).

AUTHOR

       Steve Grubb

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Red Hat                         Oct 2006            AUDIT_SET_ENABLED(3)

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