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aide

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NAME

aide - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment

SYNOPSIS

aide[parameters]command

DESCRIPTION

aide is an intrusion detection system for checking the integrityof files.

COMMANDS

--check, -C: Checks the database for inconsistencies. You must have an initializeddatabase to do this. This is also the default command. Without anycommand aide does a check.
--init, -i: Initialize the database. You must initialize a database and move it tothe appropriate place before you can use the --check command.
--update, -u: Checks the database and updates the database non-interactively. The input and output databases must be different.
--compare: Compares two databases. They must be defined in configfile withdatabase=<url> and database_new=<url>.
--config-check, -D: Stops after reading in the configuration file. Any errors will be reported.If aide was compiled with the "--with-dbhmackey" option,a hash for the config file will be calculated. See the aide manual for moreinformation.

PARAMETERS

--config=configfile , -c configfile: Configuration is read from file configfile instead of "./aide.conf". Use '-' for stdin.
--before="configparameters" , -B "configparameters": These configparameters are handled before the reading of theconfiguration file. See aide.conf (5) for more details on what to puthere.
--after="configparameters" , -A "configparameters": These configparameters are handled after the reading of theconfiguration file. See aide.conf (5) for more details on what to puthere.
--verbose=verbosity_level,-Vverbosity_level: Controls how verbose aide is. Value must [0-255]. The default is5. With no argument Value is set to 20. This parameter overrides thevalue set in a configuration file.
--report=reporter,-r reporter: reporter is a URL which tells aide where to send it'soutput. See aide.conf (5) section URLS for available values.
--version,-v: aide prints out its version number
--help,-h: Prints out the standard help message.

DIAGNOSTICS

Normally, the exit status is 0 if no errors occurred. Except when the--checkcommand was requested, in which case the exit status is defined as:

1 * (new files detected?) +
2 * (removed files detected?) +
4 * (changed files detected?)

Additionally, the following exit codes are defined for generic errorconditions:

14 Error writing error
15 Invalid argument error
16 Unimplemented function error
17 Invalid configureline error
18 IO error
19 Version mismatch error

NOTES

Please note that due to mmap issues, aide cannot be terminated withSIGTERM. Use SIGKILL to terminate.

FILES

/etc/aide.confDefault aide configuration file./etc/aide.dbDefault aide database./etc/aide.db.newDefault aide output database.

BUGS

There are probably bugs in this release. Please report themat http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide . Bug fixes are more than welcome.Unified diffs are preferred.

DISCLAIMER

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