That's what I did. Drop it on a CD-RW mountable by the clients, and have them execute it right off the cd. Put all the .db files on it too, and now any machine can become your server.
Excellent. Now the only think you need to do is check periodically that the cron job you are running is actually executing aide from the read-only medium (and not an aide faker put on your system by a hacker).
That reminds me, we need to add a default "no differences found" message to aide. Currently, if none of your files have changed, aide exits without any output. So, when executing it from cron, no message is sent. This is bad, because you will not be triggered if the cron job stops being executed all together. Currently, I run aide from cron, piped into mailx.
Sincerely,
Richard van den Berg
