Hello, On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 1:17 PM Hannes von Haugwitz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 04:28:09PM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > > Why did the exclusion regexp "!/check/ignore$" ignore the new file > > /check/ignore/andreas-was-here? Shouldn't it match just > > "/check/ignore" exactly? What am I missing? > > This is expected behaviour, as children of directories matching negative > selection lines are also ignored. I adjusted the description for > negative selection lines in aide.conf.5 as follows in 5fd96b2[0]:
--- a/doc/aide.conf.5.in +++ b/doc/aide.conf.5.in @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ Negative selection line: .fi Files and directories matching the regular expression are ignored and not added -to the database. +to the database. The children of matching directories are also ignored. .RE Thanks for the explanation! > PS.: Please refrain from opening issues at github.com[1] when you asked > the very same question here on the AIDE mailing list 2 days ago. > > [0] > https://github.com/aide/aide/commit/5fd96b2fab486264799415ebd818b02ad83dc276 > [1] https://github.com/aide/aide/issues/82 Apologies, I truly thought the behavior was a bug. Thanks for your reply and the doc commit. _______________________________________________ Aide mailing list [email protected] https://www.ipi.fi/mailman/listinfo/aide
