[Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

[Keith Constable]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Mason Nakadomari <nakadoma at hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
> Meaning I will see if my scans go faster without those directories but I'd still
> like to scan those directories in a way to make it faster. It shouldn't be impossible
> to scan those directories should it?

You can certainly scan them. In fact the aide documentation recommends
scanning /dev. If I were to scan directories like those, I would use
aide's built in rule named "L", which does not check properties that
are more or less meaningless for special files (for example, the
checksum of /dev/sda is the checksum of the entire content of the
drive, not the device file itself).

http://aide.sourceforge.net/stable/manual.html#config

Did running aide with the verbose option show if it was getting stuck
on any particular file?

Regards,

Keith Constable