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

Bill Allombert allomber at math.u-bordeaux.fr
Thu Jun 22 14:52:20 UTC 2006


On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 03:53:38PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:06:31PM +0200, allomber at math.u-bordeaux.fr wrote:
> > Experimentally, the corruption happens randomly when writing the
> > database. When I get a corrupted db, regenerating the database with the
> > same underlying filesystem lead to a non-corrupted db.
> > OTOH, trying to read a corrupted db never succeed.
> 
> You mean that one aide --update generates a corrupt database while the
> next aide --update, called immediately afterwards without touching any
> aide-related files, generates a correct one?

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.

This is the way I work around the bug.

I wonder if aide does not work better if the files are already in the
ernel cache. (The box has 1Gb of RAM, and the amount of file data processed
by aide is much smaller than that.)

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

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