[Aide] Aide 0.11-rc1 do_md Unknown error 530, error mmap'ing

[Virolainen Pablo]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, unspawn wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Oct 2005, Richard van den Berg wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> First of all thanks for the new release.
>
>> I just uploaded aide 0.11-rc1 to http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide/
>> Please test it, and provide feedback through the SF bug tracker or this
>> list. If nothing substantial shows up, the final release for aide 0.11
>> will follow shortly.
>
> Compiled static against mhash-0.9.2, no compiletime optimizations. For
> these runs I used databases made with the previous stable build of Aide.
>
> Test 1, CentOS-3:
> do_md():open() for /usr/share/vim/vim63/tools/vimspell.txt failed:Unknown error 530
> File /usr/share/vim/vim63/tools/vimspell.txt in databases has different attributes, 16317,4029
> * Apart from this Aide started & finished OK here.
>
>
> Test 2, Fedora Core 2:
> (...ran OK, 'til:)
> error mmap'ing /usr/lib/libgcj.so.4.0.0: Cannot allocate memory
> error mmap'ing /usr/lib/libethereal.so.0.0.1: Cannot allocate memory
> error mmap'ing /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/3.3.3/libgcj.a: Cannot allocate memory
> error mmap'ing /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive: Cannot allocate memory
> File /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/rules/xfree86 in databases has different attributes, 16317,4031
> File /usr/bin/[ in databases has different attributes, 4031,16317
> File /usr/bin/kill in databases has different attributes, 16317,4031
> File /usr/bin/mkcramfs in databases has different attributes, 16317,4031
> error mmap'ing /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Ft/Share/Tests/Xml/Xslt/Borrowed/REC-xslt-19991116.html: Cannot allocate memory
> error mmap'ing /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Ft/Share/Tests/Xml/Xslt/Borrowed/REC-xslt-19991116.xml: Cannot allocate memory
> Segmentation fault
> * To narrow it down, the mmap situation on the FC2 box also ocurred when
> compiled static against mhash-0.8.x.
>
> Thanks in advance.

You (propably) shouldn't use mmap. Try configure option --without-mmap

btw, if anyone is intrested, I have patch, which adds (read only, without 
gzip support) http/https/ftp database backend.

This means one can write something like 
"database=http://your.domain/%7Eaide/aide.@@{HOSTNAME}.db" to aide.conf.

Duke NEMO / C.O.M.A
alias pablo the pallo virolainen