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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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