[Aide] Configure aide for /boot only verification on encrypted root system

Richard van den Berg richard at vdberg.org
Wed Feb 13 23:49:09 EET 2008


Sorry for the late response.

service at remekmotorok.com wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> For anyone interested, I located the problem within the configure file.
>
> The command
> ./configure.modified --prefix=/ --sysconfdir=/ --with-config-file=aide.conf
>  should build aide to have all its file in ~/, but it does not.
>  From memory, the above example was producing the error: file://aide.db 
> not found or was looking for it in /etc.
>   

That error is correct. You set the sysconfigdir to / so aide.db is 
expected in /aide.db. If you want all files in ~/ you should use 
--prefix=/home/mydir and --sysconfigdir=/home/mydir/myetcdir

Sincerely,

Richard van den Berg



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