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

Richard van den Berg richard at vdberg.org
Mon Dec 5 11:53:32 EET 2005


Virolainen Pablo wrote:
> with following config file the problem doesn't exist any more. The problem 
> is that aide matches to "@@{ROOTDIR}/var/ Binlib" rule and not to 
> "@@{ROOTDIR}/var/backups$ StaticDir".

Can you explain this behaviour? I thought aide uses a "last match"
algorithm. I'm pretty sure it does not use a "best match". And using a
"first match" algorithm makes little since when your first rule is /

Sincerely,

Richard van den Berg


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