[Aide] update-aide.conf and /etc/aide/aide.conf

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 12:46:27AM -0400, Anchal Nigam wrote:
> I am having a hard time figuring out how to set AIDE up. As I understand
> it, on Debian systems, it ships with these:
> 
> - `/etc/aide/aide.conf`
> - `/etc/aide/aide.conf.d/*`
> 
> And, `aide` uses `/etc/aide/aide.conf` as the default file for
> configuration details.

No, it doesn't. The default is set to
/var/lib/aide/please-dont-call-aide-without-parameters/aide.db
which is kind of an error message for you.

See aide.wrapper.

The rest of your message is based on a wrong assumption and can thus be
ignored.

See the NEWS.Debian entry from 26 May 2006.

Greetings
Marc

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