Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: aide
this is only a bug in the documentation and is low priority; option
works as designed.
the documentation in /etc/default/aide claims:
# This parameter gives a grep regular expression. If given, all output lines
# that _don't_ match the regexp are listed first in the script's output. This
# allows to easily remove noise from the AIDE report.
while it is technically true, my interpretation is that any regexp, such
as /.svn/ should match any line containing that expression.
unfortunately it is the case that the expression must match the absolute
path starting from /, so what i really wanted was .*/.svn/ to catch what
came before. as well, this will only match file names that are
changed/added/removed, not other text in the report. perhaps the
following modification to the comment in the file would illuminate the
situation?
# This parameter gives a regular expression for filenames to ignore during
# the first part of the report. The expression must match the entire
# filename, and not just any arbitrary substring within the filename.
# If given, all output lines that _don't_ match the regexp are listed first
# in the script's output. This allows noise to be easily removed from the
# AIDE report.
# Example: /home/developer/.*/\.svn/ will filter subversion metadata;
# /\.svn/ will not (except that metadata stored in the root
directory)
checked against aide 0.13.1-8ubuntu1 in ubuntu 8.04
** Affects: aide (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: config documentation
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NOISE setting in /etc/default/aide needs better documentation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/257125
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