[Aide] --compare wierdness

[Vincent Danen]

* Richard van den Berg <richard at vdberg.org> [2006-01-23 19:51:03 +0100]:

> >>> How does --compare work?  I'm trying to compare aide.db and aide.db.new
> >>> just to see how it works and can't make it do what I think it should do.
> >> It is explained in the man pages. You should set database_new for the
> >> compare. You can do this in aide.conf or on the command line using the
> >> -B switch.
> > 
> > I did that, but it it didn't work (see all the illustrations and
> > different ways I tried in my previous messages).  I couldn't make the
> > compare work regardless of which way I tried.
> 
> In your previous message, you are using database_out. Are you sure you
> tested with database_new as well?

No, I didn't know about database_new... it wasn't in the config file (I
see it's in the manpage tho).  I tested that and it works good.  Thanks.

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