aide(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   aide(1)

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  data-
       base.

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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