[Aide] AIDE logging and "The attributes of the (uncompressed) database(s):"

Hannes von Haugwitz hannes at vonhaugwitz.com
Sat Mar 29 08:43:18 EET 2025


Hi,

On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 07:45:59PM +0100, Bastard Operator from Hell aka Django wrote:
> Why is the part “The attributes of the (uncompressed) database(s):” output
> twice in the timer-controlled check?
> Am I doing something wrong in the configuration or am I misunderstanding
> something?

If you have both `report_url = stdout` and `report_url = syslog` in your
aide config, aide writes the report to stdout as well as syslog. The
systemd timer usually also forwards stdout to the journal, so that the report
output appears twice in syslog.

Best regards

Hannes


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