[Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

Mason Nakadomari nakadoma at hawaii.edu
Fri Aug 30 01:27:39 EEST 2013


I'm enacting some of your advice immediately thank you very much to the
both of you. I'll let you know my progress. I know I'm a rookie at this but
I appreciate the help.


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Marc Haber <mh+aide at zugschlus.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 08:09:34AM -1000, Mason Nakadomari 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?
>
> /proc and /sys - on Linux - are virtual file systems that the kernel
> fills with information about the system and that are used to configure
> certains aspects of the system. An attacker is very unlikely to place
> data in there.
>
> /dev/ should be scanned with certain exceptions. Any moderately
> experienced Unix admin should know which files should be excluded
> (disks, random, zero come to mind).
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
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