[Aide] Reading AIDE database from a URL?

[Christoph Ehret]

I am not quite sure I understood well what this command do : you have
all the different DB and conf files for every server to watch on a
central server. From this central server, you first put the aide DB and
conf for a host to watch to stdout, then pipe this to ssh which will
pass this as input to aide on ${host} . So what I am not sure : aide is
installed on ${host} and is not on the central server, isnt'it ? And
what about aide -c - -u : -c ok, -u ok, but what is the meaning of -
between -c and -u ?

Thanks to put some light on what I cannot see :) .

Chris


> Why not just set aide database to stdout and let ssh to deal with the
> files. (If I remember correctly it should be possible to first feed
> aide.conf and then old database from stdin. If not possible, I have to
> sync my version with sourceforge cvs) So one should be able to do (at
> least I can:)
> 
> cat aide_${host}.conf aide_${host}.db |ssh user@${host} aide -c - -u > ${host}_${date}.db 2> ${host}_${date}.raport

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