[Aide] Tracking only changes on existing files

[Maupertuis Philippe]

I should have been more explicit.
I have a directory /archive with a subdirectory by date
[root at localhost archive]# ls -l /archive
total 40
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May  5 14:23 20160505
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May  5 14:23 20160506
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May  5 14:23 20160507
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May  5 14:23 20160508
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May  5 14:23 20160509
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May  5 14:22 20170501
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May  5 14:22 20170502
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May  5 14:22 20170503
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May  5 14:22 20170504
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 May  5 14:22 20170505

T oday I need to have :
 /archive/20170505 ANF
/archive/20160505 ARF

Yesterday
/archive/20170504 ANF
/archive/20160504 ARF

I was looking for a way to do that without editing aide.conf daily

After my post, I found a way with
echo @@define DATE  2017-05-04| cat - /etc/aide.conf |aide -c -
and
/archive/@@{DATE} ANF

An then with
aide -B '@@define DATE 2017-05-04'

Thank you anyway for pointing ANF and ARF.
Kind regards

Philippe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aide-bounces at ipi.fi [mailto:aide-bounces at ipi.fi] On Behalf Of Hannes
> von Haugwitz
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 6:37 PM
> To: Aide user mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Aide] Tracking only changes on existing files
>
> Hi Philippe,
>
> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 10:26:00AM +0200, Maupertuis Philippe wrote:
> > A directory is used for archiving files. A new subdirectory is created
> > each day with files added to this new subdirectory.  At the same time
> > one year old archives and the corresponding directory is deleted.  No
> > file change should  occur once the file is created but I would like to
> > have no alerts for added (today) files and possibly for deleted one
> > year old files.  Is that possible with aide without fiddling with the
> > configuration file every day ?
>
> You can use the ANF and ARF attributes for these files.
>
> Excerpt from the aide.conf(5) man page:
>
>     When 'ANF' is used, new files are added to the new database, but
>     are ignored in the report.
>
>     When 'ARF' is used, files missing on disk are omitted from
>     the new database, but are ignored in the report.
>
> Best regards
>
> Hannes
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