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.

auditconfig(1M), auditd(1M), bsmconv(1M), attributes(5)

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.