AIDEINIT(8)                                                   System Manager's Manual                                                  AIDEINIT(8)

NAME

       aideinit - create a new AIDE database

SYNOPSIS

       aideinit [options]

DESCRIPTION

       aideinit  creates a new AIDE database. It will initialize an AIDE database in the default database_out location. It will then prompt you to
       replace your existing AIDE database. In most cases you will want to check for any problems before doing this.

       aideinit attempts to automatically detect the correct locations of your database and database_out files based on your  aide.conf  settings.
       These settings may be overridden on the command line, as may the prompts.

OPTIONS

       -y, --yes
              Overwrite database_out file

       -f, --force
              Force overwrite of database with new database

       -c, --config
              Specify alternate config file

       -o, --output
              Specify alternate output file

       -d, --database
              Specify alternate database file

       -b, --background
              Run in the background (will mail any errors to aide.conf MAILTO or root)

FILES

       /etc/aide/aide.conf, /etc/aide/aide.conf.d
              Default AIDE configuration files

       /var/lib/aide/aide.db
              Default location for AIDE database

       /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new
              Default location for newly-created AIDE database

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Mike Markley <mike@markley.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                                                                   Dec 19, 2003                                                        AIDEINIT(8)