Auditd is not creating /var/run/audispd_events

Issue

• We have auditd running on a number of hosts, and audispd is installed. We can see audit rules with auditctl -l but no /var/run/audispd_events file is created.

• The following messages can be seen when restarting auditd:

  Apr 11 09:02:32 hostname auditd[848]: Wrong number of arguments for line 6 in /etc/audit/plugins.d//af_unix.conf
  Apr 11 09:02:32 hostname auditd[848]: Skipping af_unix.conf plugin due to errors
  Apr 11 09:02:32 hostname auditd[848]: No plugins found, not dispatching events
  Apr 11 09:02:32 hostname auditd[848]: Init complete, auditd 3.1.5 listening for events (startup state enable)