[Aide] Monitoring log files

Richard van den Berg richard at vdberg.org
Fri Dec 8 11:50:39 EET 2006


Sonixxfx wrote:
> I would like to ask another question. I don't understand in what way "="
> works. Can you explain to me if it would be used on a directory, say
> "/etc", to which part of the directory it would apply then? And if it
> would be used on a file, what effect would it have then?

Equals rules are simple rules, do not support regular expressions, and
no recursion occurs. So

=/etc R

Would just add the /etc directory itself, but not the files in it.

=/etc/hosts R

Would just add the /etc/hosts file.

Sincerely,

Richard van den Berg


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