Re: [Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

2013-08-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 02:53:01PM -1000, Mason Nakadomari wrote: We figured that the removal of a checksum would help performance No. aide is almost always disk-bound, computing the checksum happens in negligible time on today's system. You're waiting for your disk, nothing else. Run aide with

Re: [Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

2013-08-29 Thread Mason Nakadomari
Thanks the goal is monitor everything but to tailor it to the files and system. So we fully intended to only monitor things like permissions for files that change a lot or things like /dev. But we didn't think that looking at them at all would cause such a hang up. We are even trying to scan using

Re: [Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

2013-08-29 Thread Mason Nakadomari
Hi we are using fibre channel and sas disks off a vmware cluster. So I'm not sure that would be a problem. Any recommendations on what in particular to exclude from /proc /sys /dev. We don't want to exclude all of those directories. I will try to see if that is my problem. On Aug 29, 2013 3:55 AM,

Re: [Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

2013-08-29 Thread Mason Nakadomari
Meaning I will see if my scans go faster without those directories but I'd still like to scan those directories in a way to make it faster. It shouldn't be impossible to scan those directories should it? On Aug 29, 2013 8:08 AM, Mason Nakadomari nakad...@hawaii.edu wrote: Hi we are using fibre

Re: [Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

2013-08-29 Thread Keith Constable
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Mason Nakadomari nakad...@hawaii.edu wrote: Meaning I will see if my scans go faster without those directories but I'd still like to scan those directories in a way to make it faster. It shouldn't be impossible to scan those directories should it? You can

Re: [Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

2013-08-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 08:09:34AM -1000, Mason Nakadomari wrote: Meaning I will see if my scans go faster without those directories but I'd still like to scan those directories in a way to make it faster. It shouldn't be impossible to scan those directories should it? /proc and /sys - on

Re: [Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

2013-08-29 Thread Mason Nakadomari
Thanks our group has some experience but we are relatively new to Red Hat and we have some solaris experience. Its just that we are trying to be very rigorous to meet security requirements. We have found we need something tighter than the default settings. Is there a recommended tighter

Re: [Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

2013-08-29 Thread Mason Nakadomari
I'm enacting some of your advice immediately thank you very much to the both of you. I'll let you know my progress. I know I'm a rookie at this but I appreciate the help. On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:49 AM, Marc Haber mh+a...@zugschlus.de wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 08:09:34AM -1000, Mason