[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#407280: aide: Config fixes for better compliance with default Debian configs

[Tim Stoop]

Package: aide
Version: 0.13.1-2
Severity: normal

Several lines of aide config I use myself to get Aide to better behave 
with a standard Debian installation:

Default syslog installation includes /var/log/mail.err and 
/var/log/mail.warn, both are rotated. So I added them to 31_aide_syslog.

Nullmailer uses /var/spool/nullmailer for storing messages in the queue 
and the like. Since this info changes often, I use:
!/var/spool/nullmailer
It would be smart, however, to check user, group and other modes on the 
directory, I guess.

Since cron-apt downloads new indexes each night and I don't need a 
confirmation of that each day, I use:
!/var/cache/apt/lists
Also, my cron-apt config tells the program to download updated packages. 
Since it already mails me about that, I disable checking of that 
directory too, since it only duplicates a message cron-apt already sends 
me (and I'd like to keep warnings to an absolute minimum, to be sure I 
don't tire of them), I use:
!/var/cache/apt/archives
It would probably be better to at least check the settings of the 
directory (user, etc.) instead of completely ignoring it.

Hope this helps. I'll mail other changes when I find them.

-- 
Kind regards,
Tim Stoop

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-2-xen-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages aide depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf 1.5.11                  Debian configuration management sy
ii  liblockfile1     1.06.1                  NFS-safe locking library, includes
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
ii  ucf              2.0017                  Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages aide recommends:
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-99  management of regular background p

-- debconf information excluded