[Aide] Need a bit of help configuring AIDE

[Dominique Gibeau]

Hi,
    I am at my first tries setting up AIDE on our servers. It was 
installed when I got control of those servers but since the output was 
nearly endless and I was never reading it, I decided that it would be 
required to try configuring it properly in order to have a output that 
is useful.

    Basically the setup is original as it is installed on Debian 
systems. I simply added a file with 50 priority following the personal 
guide of Russell Gadd which currently contains the following lines

/var/log Logs
/var/log/aide Logs
/var/log/apache2 Logs
/var/log/exim4 Logs
/etc/tinydns/log/main Logs
/etc/dnscache/log/main Logs

!/home/www/services/libs/Smarty_compile/.*
!/home/www/myhostname.ca/sites/public/cache/.*
!/home/www/myhostname.ca/socket/members/.*

/var/lib/mysql p+n+l+u+g+c

    The main goal is mostly to ignore the log files (or at least not be 
bothered by normal changes of those files and of the rotated logs), 
completely ignore the temporary files in the 3 folders described by the 
middle section and to have only important output for the ever changing 
mysql databases.

    I think I mostly need help for the way to write the rules, even 
after having gone through the help files and semi-guides found on the 
net, it not all clear to me how it works. If I can get some of my rules 
working I should be able to configure AIDE properly for my environment.

    Any help will be appreciated.

    I hope I made my self clear, I am used to speak French. BTW I guess 
you guys know the meaning of "aide" in French?

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Dominique Gibeau