[Aide] Not a Directory errors

[Adam Funk]

On 2006-12-18, Martens, Jason <jmartens at cityofevanston.org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>    This is probably a stupid question, but why do I get thousands of errors
> like this in my e-mail report?
>
> open_dir():Not a directory:
> /var/lib/dokuwiki/data/attic/stuff.1152559507.txt.gz
>
>
> Why does it think they should be a directory?

I've always seen this for files that were (for example) in yesterday's
aide database but that I've excluded from the aide config since then.
When I replace the old database with the new one, the message goes
away.

But I don't know why --- I've been meaning to ask.