audit message output to console

Hey all, I am seeing the following output to terminal: audit(1121876490.976:53271): user pid=8726 uid=0 auid=0 msg='userdel: op=deleting user from shadow group acct=laf_b res=failed' audit(1121876490.976:53272): user pid=8726 uid=0 auid=0 msg='userdel: op=deleting mail file acct=laf_b res=failed' audit(1121876490.976:53273): user pid=8726 uid=0 auid=0 msg='userdel: op=deleting home directory acct=laf_b res=success' audit: *NO* daemon at audit_pid=9283 audit: *NO* daemon at audit_pid=9335 audit: *NO* daemon at audit_pid=9434 audit(1121876521.166:53363): auid=0 removed watch audit: *NO* daemon at audit_pid=9552 audit(1121876528.766:53387): user pid=9596 uid=0 auid=0 msg='useradd: op=adding user to group acct=laf_b res=success' audit(1121876528.766:53388): user pid=9596 uid=0 auid=0 msg='useradd: op=adding user to shadow group acct=laf_b res=success' audit(1121876528.766:53389): user pid=9596 uid=0 auid=0 msg='useradd: op=adding home directory acct=laf_b res=success' audit(1121876528.856:53390): user pid=9597 uid=0 auid=0 msg='useradd: op=adding user acct=laf_c res=success' audit(1121876528.856:53391): user pid=9597 uid=0 auid=0 msg='useradd: op=adding user to group acct=laf_c res=success' audit(1121876528.856:53392): user pid=9597 uid=0 auid=0 msg='useradd: op=adding user to shadow group acct=laf_c res=success' audit(1121876528.856:53393): user pid=9597 uid=0 auid=0 msg='useradd: op=adding home directory acct=laf_c res=success' And I just wanted to make sure this is the intended action when there is no audit daemon running. (If the audit daemon is running, these messages are captured & logged). The output to screen is essentially a copy of what appears in /var/log/messages. Mike