[Aide] Wildcard for Recursion?

Richard van den Berg richard at vdberg.org
Tue Sep 20 17:53:18 EEST 2005


Jan Klever wrote:
> I want to monitor every etc directory and tried this in aide.conf:
> 
> /service/.*/etc
> 
> but this doesn't work. Can this be done with one rule? If so, how?

No, this cannot be done. Aide tries very hard to only access the files
selected in the aide.conf, so the directory tree is built from the
directories mentioned there. So wildcards in directory names is
currently not supported.

Sincerely,

Richard van den Berg


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