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. Also, a database is needed to check against. Aide --init creates the initial database from a given config file. > 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 the > conf file on the database after an aide --init. I just wanted to > check. Thanks. > When aide is run in update mode (--update) the database is updated, and the changes with the old database reported. The config file is never automatically updates. Kind regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Aide mailing list Aide@cs.tut.fi https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/aide
