[Aide] AIDE has output even when there are no changes

[Richard van den Berg]

fuser9bb at hotpop.com wrote:
> I am using AIDE 0.10 on FreeBSD 4.9.
> 
> Perhaps I'm missing something in the configuration, but AIDE appears to
> print output even if there are no differences on the filesystem. I
> assume this is something I have done wrong. Most UNIX tools won't output
> anything unless there is something not right, e.g., a change in the
> filesystem.
> 
> Is this on purpose?

Yes it is. At the time, we felt that aide checking the filesystem is a
too important task to not output anything at all when it succeeds. If
you use the CVS version --verbose=4 and lower will cause aide be silent
as expected. (This is a bug in aide 0.10.)

Sincerely,

Richard van den Berg