[Aide] trim size of aide binary?

[Wes Thomas]

Cool, 'strip aide' did the trick. It cut the size from 1395177 to 918820.
Thanks!

On 1/4/07, andre.lue-fook-sang at thomson.com <andre.lue-fook-sang at thomson.com >
wrote:
>
>  Did you already run strip on your production binary?
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* aide-bounces at cs.tut.fi [mailto: aide-bounces at cs.tut.fi] *On Behalf
> Of *Eric Webster
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 04, 2007 8:52 AM
> *To:* 'Aide user mailinglist'
> *Subject:* Re: [Aide] trim size of aide binary?
>
>
>  Optional Packages:
>   --with-PACKAGE[=ARG]    use PACKAGE [ARG=yes]
>   --without-PACKAGE       do not use PACKAGE (same as --with-PACKAGE=no)
>   --with-mmap             use mmap [default=check]
>   --with-locale           use locale stuff
>   --with-syslog-ident     syslog ident
>   --with-syslog-facility  Specify syslog facility, see man syslog for
> options
>   --with-syslog-logopt    Specify syslog logopt, see man syslog for
> options
>   --with-syslog-priority  Specify syslog priority, see man syslog for
> options
>   --with-zlib             use zlib compression
>   --with-curl             use curl for http,https and ftp backends
>   --with-sun-acl          use ACL on solaris (no checking)
>   --with-posix-acl        use POSIX ACLs (no checking)
>   --with-selinux          use SELinux (no checking)
>   --with-xattr            use xattr (no checking)
>   --with-config-file=config-file
>                           use config-file as the default config file
>   --with-gnu-regexp       use the bundled GNU regexp library. use only if
>                           necessary
>   --with-mhash            use libmhash, needed for hmacs [default=check]
>   --with-gcrypt           use gcrypt library
>   --with-confighmactype=TYPE
>                           Hash type to use for checking config. Valid
> values
>                           are md5, sha1, sha256 and sha512.
>   --with-confighmackey=KEY HMAC
>                           hash key to use for checking config. Must be a
>                           base64 encoded byte stream. Maximum string
> length is
>                           31 chars.
>   --with-dbhmactype=TYPE  Hash type to use for checking db. Valid values
> are
>                           md5 and sha1.
>   --with-dbhmackey=KEY HMAC
>                           hash key to use for checking db. Must be a
> base64
>                           encoded byte stream. Maximum string lentgth is
> 31
>                           chars.
>   --with-initial-errors-to=URL
>                           Where errors should go while checking config.
>                           Default is stderr.
>   --with-psql             use postgresql library for storing databases
>   --with-audit            use audit library
>
> It depends on what you are using. My guess is that the average
> implementation wouldn't need curl or psql for example so you could do
> without them, if you don't use selinux or xattr then you could also disable
> those. I'm not sure how much it would reduce the file size for you though.
>
>
> Eric Webster
> Enterprise Services
> 2CheckOut.com
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* aide-bounces at cs.tut.fi [mailto: aide-bounces at cs.tut.fi] *On Behalf
> Of *Wes Thomas
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 03, 2007 6:26 PM
> *To:* aide at cs.tut.fi
> *Subject:* [Aide] trim size of aide binary?
>
>
>  Hi,
>
> I am trying to fit my database, config, and the aide binary on a floppy
> disk. What are some options I can pass to ./configure to significantly cut
> the size of the binary? If I lose about 150kB, I will be able to fit my
> gzipped database on the disk.
>
> Also, a side question: is there a safe way to automate aide checks for a
> single system? A cron job does not seem like a good idea.
>
> Thanks,
> Wes
>
>
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