[Aide] Scanning of hidden directories fails

[Richard van den Berg]

On Wed, 19 May 2010 08:10:43 +0200, Pedro Sanchez
<pedro.sanchez50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This software was inside a directory named  ...  ( three following
points)
> This name makes the directory invisible for aide, so we have no
> knowing of this filesystem modification.

What was the full path of the directory where the software was installed?
Was aide configured to scan a top level directory recursively?

Aide will definitely find a directory named ... and all files installed in
it when configured correctly:

@@begin_db
# This file was generated by Aide, version post-0.14
# Time of generation was 2010-05-19 08:39:26
@@db_spec name lname attr perm bcount uid gid size mtime ctime inode
lcount md5
/tmp/bar 0 4029 40755 0 1000 1000 60 MTI3NDI1MTEyOQ== MTI3NDI1MTEyOQ==
10183511 3 0
/tmp/bar/... 0 4029 40755 0 1000 1000 60 MTI3NDI1MTEzOQ== MTI3NDI1MTEzOQ==
10183515 2 0
/tmp/bar/.../foo 0 8125 100644 0 1000 1000 0 MTI3NDI1MTEzOQ==
MTI3NDI1MTEzOQ== 10183526 1 1B2M2Y8AsgTpgAmY7PhCfg==

Cheers,

Richard