aide

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

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 (see database_in config option) before you can use the --check command.

--dry-init, -n (added in AIDE v0.17)

Traverse the file system, match each file against the rule tree and report to stdout. Neither reports nor the database are written in this mode. To change the log level in this mode please use the --log-level command line parameter. In this mode aide exits with status 0.

--update, -u

Checks the database and updates the database non-interactively. The input and output databases must be different.

--compare, -E

Compares two databases. They must be defined in config file with database=<url> and database_new=<url>.

--config-check, -D

Stops after reading in the configuration file. Any errors will be reported. To change the log level in this mode please use the --log-level command line parameter.

--path-check=file_type:path, -p file_type: path (added in AIDE v0.17)

Read configuration and match provided file_type and path against rule tree. The path is independent of what is in the actual file system and needs to be absolute. See RESTRICTED RULES section in aide.conf (5) for supported file types. To change the log level in this mode please use the --log-level command line parameter. In this mode aide exits with status 0 if the file would be added to the tree, 1 if not and 2 if the file does not match a specified limit.

PARAMETERS

--config=configfile , -c configfile

Configuration is read from file configfile (see --version output for default value). Use '-' for stdin.

--limit=REGEX , -l REGEX (added in AIDE v0.16)

Limit command to entries matching REGEX. Note that the REGEX only matches at the first position.

aide --update --limit /etc

--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.

--log-level=log_level,-Llog_level (added in AIDE v0.17)

The log level to use (see aide.conf (5) for available log levels and more details). This overwrites the log_level value set in any configuration file.

--verbose=verbosity_level,-Vverbosity_level (REMOVED in AIDE v0.17)

Removed, use log_level and report_level config options instead (see aide.conf (5) for details).

--report=reporter,-r reporter (REMOVED in AIDE v0.17)

Removed, use report_url config option instead (see aide.conf (5) for details).

--workers=WORKERS , -W WORKERS (added in AIDE v0.18)

Specifies the number of workers (see aide.conf (5) for details). This overwrites the num_workers value set in any configuration file.

--version,-v

Print version information and exit.

--help,-h

Prints out the standard help message.

EXIT STATUS

1 * (new files reported?) +

2 * (removed files reported?) +

4 * (changed files reported?)

14 Writing error

15 Invalid argument error

16 Unimplemented function error

17 Configuration error

18 IO error

19 Version mismatch error

20 EXEC error

21 File lock error

22 Memory allocation error

23 Thread error

SIGNAL HANDLING

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