Re: [Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

2013-09-08 Thread Mason Nakadomari
Hi everyone while the time is gotten down its still taking very long about 3 to 4 days to complete. I've been looking at the verbose reports but most of it just shows the files being digested without really wha tmight be the problem I can post but I'm not sure how useful it would be. My boss

[Aide] Config file on aide check

2013-09-08 Thread Mason Nakadomari
Hi I wanted to clear up my confusion about how aide works. Does the aide --check command work if there is no aide.conf. when a check is run then it won't run right? Also I just wanted to check that the aide check doesn't update the conf every time a check happens. I believe that it only updates

Re: [Aide] Config file on aide check

2013-09-08 Thread Richard van den Berg
On 08-09-13 10:10, Mason Nakadomari wrote: Hi I wanted to clear up my confusion about how aide works. Does the aide --check command work if there is no aide.conf. when a check is run then it won't run right? If there is no config file, aide does not know which files to scan with which rules.

Re: [Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

2013-09-08 Thread Richard van den Berg
On 08-09-13 09:30, Mason Nakadomari wrote: However the scans still take 3 to 4 days to complete and generate reports 143000 lines long. Is there anyway I can speed this up or is cutting down on files the only way. Aide is typically IO bound on modern systems. Such long run times indicate

Re: [Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

2013-09-08 Thread Mason Nakadomari
here is what my iostat looks on the local machine. Could it be network related since I'm running the aide-server package. [root@aid70 ~]# iostat -dx Linux 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 (aid70.pvt.hawaii.edu) 09/08/13 _x86_64_(1 CPU) Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s

Re: [Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

2013-09-08 Thread Richard van den Berg
On 8-9-13 14:19 , Mason Nakadomari wrote: I am running it as nohup aide.init hostname would that make a difference? No, that does not make any difference. Kind regards, Richard ___ Aide mailing list Aide@cs.tut.fi

Re: [Aide] AIDE configuration taking too long

2013-09-08 Thread Richard van den Berg
On 8-9-13 14:40 , Mason Nakadomari wrote: here is what my iostat looks on the local machine. Could it be network related since I'm running the aide-server package. IO performance can absolutely be network related when you are using a SAN. I don't know what the aide-server package is though.