[Aide] AIDE exit status

[Christopher Jon Caldwell]

Does AIDE always return a 0 from the check command? I have a bourne  
shell script that is run nightly on all of my hosts that appends all  
results to a log file and I populate a word list as a psuedo-array to  
indicate where the errors occurred in the subject line of the email  
containing the log. Even when there are differences between the  
filesystem and the database the code below echos a newline into the  
log rather than appending aide to the word list. This seems counter- 
intuitive given other command behaviours (e.g. diff which returns a 1  
if differences are found). I realize that I could use a workaround  
like using tee to pass the AIDE output to a second logfile and grep  
for the strings "Changed" or "Added", but it seems like this behavior  
should be fixed.

if $AIDE --check >> $LOG; then
   echo "" >> $LOG
else
   set `echo $*` aide
fi


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Christopher Caldwell

Systems Engineer, Enterprise Systems, The George Washington University
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                                        - Derek Bok, Harvard University



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