[Aide] rules questions

[Richard van den Berg]

Your config looks fine in general. http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide/manual.html#config explains all there is the know about the config rules. 

> /var/lib/mlocate is the rule sorry I made a typo. I apologize. But am I correct in my understanding of how aide works? Thank you very much.
> 
> On Sep 6, 2013 9:15 PM, "Richard van den Berg" <richard at vdberg.org> wrote:
>> There is no specific rule for /var/lib/locate in your config. 
>> 
>> Are you sure the @@ifhost matches? Take this out while testing. 
>> 
>>> Looking this over and running the scan this doesn't seem to be working. It doesn't seem to be targeting the specific rules such as /var/lib/locate and then scanning everything else with the broader rule / customtest1. I'm confused. Am I misunderstanding the documentation on this? Please advise.
>>> 
>>> On Sep 6, 2013 6:36 AM, "Mason Nakadomari" <nakadoma at hawaii.edu> wrote:
>>>> Hi any help or confirmation would be appreciated. Thank you for your time thanks.
>>>> 
>>>> On Sep 5, 2013 11:15 AM, "Mason Nakadomari" <nakadoma at hawaii.edu> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I've looking over the manual and I wanted to check if my understanding s correct. my understanding is that if I want to search individual directories with a less general rule like CUSTOMTEST6 but still scan everything else using a general rule like CUSTOMTEST1 that I would use something like the below.
>>>>> CUSTOMTEST5 = p+u+g+acl+selinux
>>>>> CUSTOMTEST6 = L
>>>>> CUSTOMTEST1 = p+i+u+g+m+acl+selinux+md5
>>>>> @@ifhost aid70
>>>>> =/var/log$ CUSTOMTEST6
>>>>> /var/log/.* CUSTOMTEST5
>>>>> /var/spool/.* CUSTOMTEST5
>>>>> /var/lib/mlocate$ CUSTOMTEST6
>>>>> /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db$ CUSTOMTEST5
>>>>> /var/lib/rpm/__db.00* CUSTOMTEST6
>>>>> /var/lib/logrotate.status$ CUSTOMTEST6
>>>>> /var/lib/readahead/early.sorted$ CUSTOMTEST6
>>>>> / CUSTOMTEST1
>>>>> !/var/tmp/.*
>>>>> !/tmp/.*
>>>>> !/sys/.*
>>>>> !/dev/.*
>>>>> !/proc/.*
>>>>> @@endif
>>>>> 
>>>>> I looked at a lot of examples and this is what I came up with. Is this not correct. I've also been playing around with more specific and drawn out rules but I wanted something as simple as possible so others can edit and add new rules.
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