aide - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment

aide %[options] %command

aide is an intrusion detection system for checking the integrity of files.

--check, -C

Checks the database for inconsistencies. You must have an initialized database to do this. This is also the default option. Without any command aide does a check.

--init, -i

Initialize the database. You must initialize a database and move it to the appropriate place before you can use the --check option.

--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 with database=<url> and database_new=<url>.

--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 the configuration file. See aide.conf (5) for more details on what to put here.

--after=configparameters, -A configparameters

These configparameters are handled after the reading of the configuration file. See aide.conf (5) for more details on what to put here.

--verbose=verbosity_level, -Vverbosity_level

Controls how verbose aide is. Value must [0-255]. The default is 5. With no argument Value is set to 20. This option overrides the value set in a configuration file.

--report=reporter, -r reporter

reporter is a URL which tells aide where to send it's output. 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.

/etc/aide/aide.conf Default aide configuration file. /etc/aide/aide.conf.d Config snippets which are automatically concatenated to the configuration file by update-aide.conf /var/lib/aide/aide.db Default aide database. /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new Default aide output database.

aide.conf(5) http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide/manual.html

There are probably bugs in this release. Please report them to rammer@cs.tut.fi and to the Debian BTS. Bug fixes are more than welcome. Unified diffs are preferred.

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