[Aide] "Total number of files" question

[David Alanis]

Quoting José María de Fuentes <jfuentes at inf.uc3m.es>:

> Dear all,
> While using AIDE, some students reported a challenging issue. In AIDE´s
> reports, the "total number of files" field was not apparently correct. In a
> directory with just 2 files, it reported to have
>
> Total number of files: 6
>
> The aide.conf file looked like this:
>
> Database... (not interesting)
> Database_out... (not interesting)
> gzip_dbout=no
> Datos = p
>
> /home/name Datos
>
> Could you give me some explanation about what´s going on? Is anything wrong?
> What does AIDE count in that field?
>
> Waiting for your reply, thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Jose M.
>

I am just curious to know since it appears this is a user home  
directory it is reading e.g. .bash_profile .bashrc etc....

Can you do a ls -la on this directory?

Cheers,
David

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