System Administration Guide: Security Services

file Token

The file token is a special token that is generated by the auditd daemon. The token marks the beginning of a new audit file and the end of an old audit file as the old file is deactivated. The initial file token identifies the previous file in the audit trail. The final file token identifies the next file in the audit trail. The auditd daemon builds a special audit record that contains this token to “link” together successive audit files into one audit trail.

The praudit -x command shows the fields of the file token. This token identifies the next file in the audit trail. The line is wrapped for display purposes.


<file iso8601="2009-04-08 14:18:26.200 -07:00">
/var/audit/machine1/files/20090408211826.not_terminated.machine1</file>