[Aide] Implementation and configuration question.

[Richard van den Berg]

Hello Dave,

> 1) Running the cron.daily script for aide is terrifying.  It's 705 lines 
> of very dense shell script, and I'm not really sure how different it is 
> than a single cron line that says aide --check

Aide does not ship with a cron.daily script. Most likely this is provided by your Linux distribution. You should request support for this script there. Did you read their documentation for example in /usr/share/doc ?

> 2) I want aide to rebuild and place the database after each check. One 
> warning sent to root@ that such ans such files are changed, and then the 
> database is reset.  I can't use the same filename in /etc/aide/aide.conf 
> for database, database_out, and database_new (it throws a warning).  So 
> how do I say "Run against the current db, when done, put the new db in 
> place of the old one"?  --update doesn't seem to do anything.  
> Consecutive runs of --update show the same information.

See http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide/manual.html#usage

> 3) There's an option buried in the daily cron job called COPYNEWDB, but 
> there's no indication where this option is set or how to set it.

See my answer to 1).

> aide comes close to being a very useful tool, but I'm finding the 
> implementation very difficult to understand, and it strikes me as overly 
> complex.

Again, see my answer to 1).

> If I can get these basic operations going, I'll probably 
> implement it.  Am i missing some basic concept?

Which parts of http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide/manual.html specifically do you have questions about?

Kind regards,

Richard
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