# phpman > man > apparmor_status(8)

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## NAME
       aa-status - display various information about the current AppArmor policy.

## SYNOPSIS
       **aa-status** [option]

## DESCRIPTION
       **aa-status** will report various aspects of the current state of AppArmor confinement. By
       default, it displays the same information as if the _--verbose_ argument were given. A sample
       of what this looks like is:

         apparmor module is loaded.
         110 profiles are loaded.
         102 profiles are in enforce mode.
         8 profiles are in complain mode.
         Out of 129 processes running:
         13 processes have profiles defined.
         8 processes have profiles in enforce mode.
         5 processes have profiles in complain mode.

       Other argument options are provided to report individual aspects, to support being used in
       scripts.

## OPTIONS
       **aa-status** accepts only one argument at a time out of:

### --enabled
           returns error code if AppArmor is not enabled.

### --profiled
           displays the number of loaded AppArmor policies.

### --enforced
           displays the number of loaded enforcing AppArmor policies.

### --complaining
           displays the number of loaded non-enforcing AppArmor policies.

### --kill
           displays the number of loaded enforcing AppArmor policies that will kill tasks on policy
           violations.

### --special-unconfined
           displays the number of loaded non-enforcing AppArmor policies that are in the special
           unconfined mode.

       --process-mixed displays the number of processes confined by profile stacks with profiles in
       different modes.
### --verbose
           displays multiple data points about loaded AppArmor policy set (the default action if no
           arguments are given).

### --json
           displays multiple data points about loaded AppArmor policy set in a JSON format, fit for
           machine consumption.

### --pretty-json
           same as --json, formatted to be readable by humans as well as by machines.

### --help
           displays a short usage statement.

## EXIT STATUS
       Upon exiting, **aa-status** will set its exit status to the following values:

       **0**   if apparmor is enabled and policy is loaded.

       **1**   if apparmor is not enabled/loaded.

       **2**   if apparmor is enabled but no policy is loaded.

       **3**   if the apparmor control files aren't available under /sys/kernel/security/.

       **4**   if the user running the script doesn't have enough privileges to read the apparmor
           control files.

       **42**  if an internal error occurred.

## BUGS
       **aa-status** must be run as root to read the state of the loaded policy from the apparmor
       module. It uses the /proc filesystem to determine which processes are confined and so is
       susceptible to race conditions.

       If you find any additional bugs, please report them at
       <<https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/issues>>.

## SEE ALSO
       [**apparmor**(7)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/apparmor/7/markdown), [**apparmor.d**(5)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/apparmor.d/5/markdown), and <<https://wiki.apparmor.net>>.



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