Information about the package, audit, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The audit package is designed for, User space tools for 2.6 kernel auditing.
Package Name:
audit
Summary:
User space tools for 2.6 kernel auditing
Description:
The audit package contains the user space utilities for storing and searching the audit records generate by the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.4.5
Release:
6.el6
Size:
551 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the audit package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install audit
This command will install audit on the server.
yum remove audit
This command will un-install audit on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove audit, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove audit
This command will un-install audit on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove audit when using the -y flag.
yum update audit
This command will update audit to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove audit, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update audit
This command will update audit to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove audit when using the -y flag.
yum info audit
This command will show you core information about the audit package.
yum deplist audit
This command will show you the dependencies for audit. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update audit
This command will check if there is an update waiting on audit. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.