[Aide] aide 0.11 is generating a VERY large database.

Adam Funk a24061 at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 10 16:29:00 EET 2006


On 2006-11-10, Marc Haber <mh+aide at zugschlus.de> wrote:

>> Thanks for pointing that out.  Since I also have a /home/scratch/ that
>> isn't listed in /etc/passwd, I've added a 31_exclude-homes-custom file
>> that just says
>> 
>> !/home
>> 
>> and I'll see if that does it.
>
> That should do it.

I let it finish and the file is 102MB (compared to 2.2MB with 0.10)
but at least I know it's finished.  The daily cron output should be
interesting...


>> Is there any easy way to get a text listing of the files catalogued in
>> aide.db so I can grep or otherwise examine it to see what else I need
>> to manually exclude?
>
> aide.db _is_ a text listing. If you cannot see it immediately, try
> piping its contents throgh gunzip.

Doh!  So it is.  Thanks!



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