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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Which UNIX OS is going to give me the most versatility? I Want Total Control Post 302974334 by bakunin on Saturday 28th of May 2016 08:44:18 AM

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Asking for total control is easy - executing total control in a knowing and responsible way affords knowledge and "wisdom" and on a "total" level the knowledge and wisdom should be matchingly total.

Most of the things you describe are either so "outlandish" that they are run-of-the-mill ("install a second OS" - oh my god, you might have invented virtualisation) or common traits of any UNIX (or Linux) system ("dump the memory" - so what, i do that on a regular basis).

But what takes the biscuit is:

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to hook up devices that aren't meant for computers, or in some cases never intended to be hooked up to anything period

I just tried that and attached a banana which was sitting in my refrigerator for the last 3 weeks to my USB port. The outcome - well there was no outcome, but my choice of OS had probably nothing to do with it, even though i have total control and am able to print out arbitrarily sized mounds of gibberish from the RAM using a symbolic debugger.

I suspect if you could glean any meaning from the output of a kernel debugger you wouldn't be asking such questions. So how about you drop the i-am-such-a-crazy-hAXX0R-antics and tell us what you really want? You might even get some answer which will really help you.

I hope this helps.

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auditstat

auditstat(1M)						  System Administration Commands					     auditstat(1M)

NAME

       auditstat - display kernel audit statistics

SYNOPSIS

       auditstat [-c count] [-h numlines] [-i interval] [-n] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

       auditstat displays kernel audit statistics. The fields displayed are as follows:

       aud     The total number of audit records processed by the audit(2) system call.

       ctl     This field is obsolete.

       drop    The total number of audit records that have been dropped. Records are dropped according to the kernel audit policy. See auditon(2),
	       AUDIT_CNT policy for details.

       enq     The total number of audit records put on the kernel audit queue.

       gen     The total number of audit records that have been constructed (not the number written).

       kern    The total number of audit records produced by user processes (as a result of system calls).

       mem     The total number of Kbytes of memory currently in use by the kernel audit module.

       nona    The total number of non-attributable audit records that have been constructed. These are audit records that are not attributable to
	       any particular user.

       rblk    The total number of times that the audit queue has blocked waiting to process audit data.

       tot     The total number of Kbytes of audit data written to the audit trail.

       wblk    The total number of times that user processes blocked on the audit queue at the high water mark.

       wrtn    The  total  number  of audit records written. The difference between enq and wrtn is the number of outstanding audit records on the
	       audit queue that have not been written.

OPTIONS

       -c count       Display the statistics a total of count times. If count is equal to zero, statistics are	displayed  indefinitely.   A  time
		      interval must be specified.

       -h numlines    Display a header for every  numlines of statistics printed. The default is to display the header every 20 lines. If numlines
		      is equal to zero, the header is never displayed.

       -i interval    Display the statistics every interval where interval is the number of seconds to sleep between each collection.

       -n	      Display the number of kernel audit events currently configured.

       -v	      Display the version number of the kernel audit module software.

EXIT STATUS

       auditstat returns 0 upon success and 1 upon failure.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       auditconfig(1M), praudit(1M), bsmconv(1M), audit(2), auditon(2), attributes(5)

NOTES

       The functionality described in this man page is available only if the Basic Security Module (BSM) has been enabled.  See   bsmconv(1M)  for
       more information.

SunOS 5.11							    11 Feb 2008 						     auditstat(1M)