[Aide] --compare wierdness

[Richard van den Berg]

Vincent Danen wrote:
>>> How does --compare work?  I'm trying to compare aide.db and aide.db.new
>>> just to see how it works and can't make it do what I think it should do.
>> It is explained in the man pages. You should set database_new for the
>> compare. You can do this in aide.conf or on the command line using the
>> -B switch.
> 
> I did that, but it it didn't work (see all the illustrations and
> different ways I tried in my previous messages).  I couldn't make the
> compare work regardless of which way I tried.

In your previous message, you are using database_out. Are you sure you
tested with database_new as well?

Sincerely,

Richard van den Berg