[Aide] Once more, questions about ANF/ARF

Richard van den Berg richard at vdberg.org
Mon Feb 20 15:19:43 EET 2006


Marc Haber wrote:
> aide --update will automatically create an aide.db.new and report
> differences. Currently, manual intervention is required to copy
> aide.db.new to aide.db.

Of course, that is what I meant to say. :-)

> I would like to have aide.db.new copied to aide.db automatically only
> if no differences have been reported. This would be implemented in
> Debian's daily cron job, no changes in aide itself required.

Yes, I figured you would be adding that to the script of the debian 
package. I see no danger in that. If there are no changes reported, the 
database can be updated without risk.

Sincerely,

Richard van den Berg


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