Bug#245423: [Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#245423: aide regularly "forgets" about /sbin and /dev

[Bill Allombert]

On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 04:57:43PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 04:52:20PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Yes, I do
> > aide --update
> > mv /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new /var/lib/aide/aide.db
> > aide --check
> > If that reports a lot of missing files, I restart the process and it
> > works.
> 
> Do you start again with aide --update, or with aide --check?

Both actually: 
I run aide --check several time and I always get that the db is
corrupted miss files.
Then I do aide --update and I get a working db.

> If you start again with aide --update, that update goes against the
> corrupt database which you copied over the last known good one.

Experimentally the aide.db.new resulting from aide --update is not
affected by the current aide.db being corrupted.

What do you suggest I do instead of aide --update ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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