aide.real(1)

Usage

aide [options] command

Overview

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

Commands

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

--update,: 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>.

Parameters

--config=configfile: Configuration is read from file configfile instead of "./aide.conf". Use '-' for stdin.

--before="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": 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 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.

Files

<prefix>/etc/aide.conf Default aide configuration file. <prefix>/etc/aide.db Default aide database. <prefix>/etc/aide.db.new Default aide output database.

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