[Aide] How to make aide print file details of an arbitrary file?

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:09:17PM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> > With some minor quirk, it works: When /dev/null is used to initialize
> > the db, the checksums are written to the db as "0", and are not
> > reported as changed when checking against the database after editing
> > the file name.
> 
> Hmm, would that be considered a bug? It makes senes that the checksum
> defined as 0 when there is no input data. But shouldn't it be reported
> as changed when the file does contain data and the checksum becomes
> meaningful?

I agree that this should be reported as changed. Whether this is a bug
or not, I'll leave that decision to you.

Greetings
Marc

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