02-16-2005
The author does have a point that the less well known an operating
system such as Solaris is, the less likely there is for they're to be a
virus or other maliciously coded plague to infect it. The writers of
these programs want to infect the most common operating systems
in use.
I like my old Red Hat 6.2 and Solaris 8 best and have never had a
problem and am reluctant to upgrade, because I think the less common operating systems will have less likely a chance of attack being unknown
to attackers.
Doesn't this line of reason make sense?
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
audit_startup
audit_startup(1M) System Administration Commands audit_startup(1M)
NAME
audit_startup - audit subsystem initialization script
SYNOPSIS
/etc/security/audit_startup
DESCRIPTION
The audit_startup script is used to initialize the audit subsystem before the audit deamon is started. This script is configurable by the
system administrator, and currently consists of a series of auditconfig(1M) commands to set the system default policy, and download the
initial event to class mapping.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Obsolete Committed |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
auditconfig(1M), auditd(1M), bsmconv(1M), attributes(5)
See the section on Solaris Auditing in System Administration Guide: Security Services.
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.
This command is Obsolete and may be removed and replaced with equivalent functionality in a future release of Solaris.
SunOS 5.11 20 Jan 2009 audit_startup(1M)