[Aide] Regexp Problem

[Pete J. O'Hara]

Richard,
Thanks! It's a little embarassing when someone else comes up with the 
answere from a place I thought I looked. I've been working on then but 
my google skills still need some work :)

Pete

>Hello Pete,
>
>You did not Google hard enough:
>https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/pipermail/aide/2005-August/000160.html
>
>Pete J. O'Hara wrote:
>  
>
>>Using a regexp tester I have tells me that the following expression 
>>matches what I need
>>/var/spool/postfix(_f)?/lib(64)?/.*\.so(\.[^/]*)*
>>
>>But putting this in aide.conf like so:
>>/var/spool/postfix(_f)?/lib(64)?/.*\.so(\.[^/]*)* Binlib
>>
>>Doesn't match.
>>    
>>
>
>Aide does not allow regexes in the directory part of a selection rule.
>The reason for this, is that aide uses that path information to decide
>which directories to recurse into. Only the file part is a full featured
>regex. So
>
>/var/spool/postfix_f/lib64/.*\.so(\.[^/]*)* Binlib
>/var/spool/postfix_f/lib/.*\.so(\.[^/]*)* Binlib
>/var/spool/postfix/lib64/.*\.so(\.[^/]*)* Binlib
>/var/spool/postfix/lib/.*\.so(\.[^/]*)* Binlib
>
>should work fine. A future version of aide might support regexes in
>directory names as well.
>
>
>Richard van den Berg
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