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

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 11:47:37AM +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> On 2006-11-10, Marc Haber <mh+aide at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > Recent aide packages have more detailed ignores for certain packages
> > delivered in the default config.
> 
> Having tried to study the aide 0.11 Debian/Ubuntu config in more
> detail, and thought about some of your comments, I wonder if I have a
> wrong notion of what aide should and should not cover.
> 
> 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?

I feel that these questions are answered in
/usr/share/doc/aide/NEWS.Debian.gz. If they are not answered there,
please re-phrase them so that I can improve my answers.

Greetings
Marc

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