[Aide] aide reporting directory changes even if not configured to

Marc Haber mh+aide at zugschlus.de
Thu Dec 1 13:37:51 EET 2005


On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:07:01AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> I have the following configuration:
> 
> StaticDir = n+p+i+u+g
> Databases = n+p+u+g
> /etc$ StaticDir
> /etc/motd Databases
> 
> Last night at 20:37, I umounted a file system. Now, aide reports a
> change in /etc:
> 
> changed:/etc
> 
> Directory: /etc
>   Mtime    : 2005-11-27 17:41:06               , 2005-11-27 20:37:36
>   Ctime    : 2005-11-27 17:41:06               , 2005-11-27 20:37:36
> 
> Why is it reporting changed mtime and ctime? It is not configured to
> do so?
> 
> I am using an aide CVS snapshot dated 2005-11-22 on Debian unstable.

Any ideas what might be going wrong here? This happens also with other
directories configured as StaticDir, for example /var/tmp and
/var/backups.

Greetings
Marc

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