System Administration Guide: Security Services

file Token

The file token is a special token that is generated by the audit 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 audit daemon builds a special audit record that contains this token to “link” together successive audit files into one audit trail. The file token has four fields:

The praudit command displays the file token as follows:


file,Tue Sep  1 13:32:42 1992, + 79249 msec,
	/var/audit/localhost/files/19990901202558.19990901203241.quisp

The following figure shows the format of a file token.

Figure 23–11 file Token Format

The preceding context describes the graphic.