[Aide] Reporting log files

Marc Haber mh+aide at zugschlus.de
Wed Mar 28 13:24:45 EEST 2007


On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 10:15:03AM +0300, Pablo Virolainen wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Marc Haber wrote:
> > > Would it not be possible for Aide, since it records the previous
> > > log file size, to verify checksums over the initial part of the
> > > file comprising of the old size?  So the options for a growing
> > > logfile could include S+md5+sha1 and the hashes would know, as a
> > > result of the S option, that the old size is to be used to record
> > > the previous bits.
> >
> > Nice idea. wishlist request 1683255 in the aide feature request
> > tracker. Again, if I omitted something, please add there.
> 
> This is not so easy. Actually this can't be implemented without knowing
> the original size (read from the database). So running init and then
> compare would be different than running update.

Please explain, I don't seem to understand what you mean here.

Greetings
Marc

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