[Aide] aide 0.11 reporting directory as changed even if configured not to do so

Marc Haber mh+aide at zugschlus.de
Wed Feb 22 08:56:57 EET 2006


On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 07:55:42PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> I have aide configured like this:
> 
> $ grep -hr /etc /etc/aide
> /etc/cron.daily$ StaticDir
> /etc$ StaticDir
> /etc/adjtime$ Databases
> /etc/motd$ Databases
> /etc/mtab$ n+p+u
> /etc/inetd.conf$ InetdConf
> $
> 
> StaticDir = n+p+i+u+g
> 
> Sometimes, aide reports /etc as being changed:
> 
> changed:/etc
> 
> Directory: /etc
>   Mtime    : 2006-02-17 07:38:19               , 2006-02-18 07:11:56
>   Ctime    : 2006-02-17 07:38:19               , 2006-02-18 07:11:56
> 
> The time of the change correlates with the DHCP daemon re-newing the
> IP lease, but aide shouldn't be reporting the changes to mtime and
> ctime in the first place.
> 
> Any ideas what might be wrong?

The same thing frequently happens to /var/backups and other
directories configured as StaticDir.

Greetings
Marc

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