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

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 10:53:32AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote:
> 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 /

Additionally, the Exclude-include Gymastics that I do in my example is
necessary when /var is a symlink.

I'm going to submit an example for that as soon as possible, but
cannot promise that it'll be today.

Greetings
Marc, missing 5/6 of our Internet Bandwidth and being ridden with
unbearably high latency on the ssh session home.

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