NAME
aide - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment
SYNOPSIS
aide [parameters] command
DESCRIPTION
aide is an intrusion detection system for checking the integrity of
files.
COMMANDS
--check, -C
Checks the database for inconsistencies. You must have an
initialized database to do this. This is also the default
command. 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
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 with
database=<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 more information.
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 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 parameter 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.
DIAGNOSTICS
Normally, the exit status is 0 if no errors occurred. Except when the
--check command 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 error
conditions:
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 with
SIGTERM. Use SIGKILL to terminate.
FILES
/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. This is a
Debian extension. aide.db Default aide database. aide.db.new Default
aide output database.
SEE ALSO
aide.conf(5) http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide/manual.html
BUGS
There are probably bugs in this release. Please report them at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aide and to the Debian BTS. Bug fixes
are more than welcome. Unified diffs are preferred.
DISCLAIMER
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. No animals
were harmed while making this webpage or this piece of software.
Although some pizza delivery guy's feelings were hurt.
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