[Aide] Could not open file

[Hannes von Haugwitz]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 06:25:50AM -0700, Joel wrote:
> I recently installed Aide 0.15.1 on my Redhat linux server, version 5.  
> The  install produced no errors, but after editing the aide.conf and  
> initializing the database, I got an error when trying to check the  database.  
> It said it could not open /tmp/aide-0.15.1/etc/aide.db  I  don't have an "etc" 
> directory located in the aide-0.15.1 folder.  The  aide.db.new file writes to 
> the standard /etc/ directory. I cp  aide.db.new aide.db, but I can't get it to 
> read from the standard /etc/  location
> 
> How can I fix my configuration? 
> 
> This is what my aide.conf file looks like:
> 
[...]
> #The location of the database to be read.
> database=file:aide.db
> #database=file:@@{TOPDIR}/
> 
> #The location of the database to be written
> #database_out=sql:host:port:database:login_name:passwd:table
> #database_out=file:aide.db.new
> database_out=file:aide.db.new

Did you try absolute pathnames (e.g. database=file:/etc/aide/aide.db)?

Does your problem still exist? If so, please provide more information
about how you build your aide binary (for instance configure options).

Greetings

Hannes