I've set up AIDE to run on a few of my boxes and I've put the aide.db file on a write-protected floppy. It occurred to me that if the box was rooted, the conf file could be edited, a new aide.db generated. So, I thought it would be wise to put the aide.conf file on the floppy as well. This requires modifying the cron job CONFFILE variable to point to /floppy/aide/aide.conf.
When my cronjob is run, it reports that it could not access /var/lib/aide.db. Here are what I think the relative lines are in /etc/cron.daily/aide CONFFILE="/floppy/aide/aide.conf" DATABASE=`grep "^database=file:/" $CONFFILE | head -1 | cut -d: -f2` [ -z "$DATABASE" ] && DATABASE="/var/lib/aide/aide.db" So the conf file path is correct. The second line parses database=file:/floppy/aide/aide.db to "/floppy/aide/aide.db" which is correct. The third line gets a bit beyond my knowledge of bash scripting, I assume it means that if the file the $DATABASE variable points to doesn't exist, then set $DATABASE to /var/lib/aide/aide.db. Here's the e-mail report I get: Output of the daily AIDE run: Couldn't open file /var/lib/aide/aide.db for reading AIDE produced no errors. Why is the third line above setting DATABASE to /var/lib/aide/aide.db? Thanks, Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
