[Aide] aide 0.11 is generating a VERY large database.

Richard van den Berg richard at vdberg.org
Thu Dec 14 14:04:38 EET 2006


Adam Funk wrote:
> My expectation has been that a "sensible" config would exclude things
> that routinely change every day, such as most log files; in other
> words, the daily aide report should be almost empty in normal use,
> except when I've installed, removed or upgraded software (and in that
> case the report should be big but should reflect the packages
> changed).
> 
> Is that wrong?

That is what I aim for as well. Except that I don't want to exclude log
files altogether, I try to track those attributes that do not change.

Sincerely,

Richard van den Berg


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