[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#442376: Bug#442376: aide: Unnecessary output in low-verbosity mode

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:51:04PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 09:01:26AM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
> > > I have "version=3" in my configuration file, which for years
> > > suppressed output when there weren't any changes.
> > 
> > I am not aware of any "version=" option. Please explain.
> 
> Sorry, that was a typo. I meant to say
> 
>   verbose=3
> 
> which you are aware of, I'm sure ;-).

Yes, ;)

> > >  However, after upgrading to etch, I'm getting email (appended below).
> > >  In /etc/default/aide, the relevant options are:
> > > 
> > >   QUIETREPORTS=yes
> > >   NOISE=""
> > >   AIDEARGS="--config=/etc/aide/aide.conf"
> > > 
> > > Here is the email. Any thoughts?
> > > 
> > >   Errors produced  (1 lines):
> > >   not updating aide configuration since manual config option was given
> > 
> > This is considered an error,
> 
> Specifying --config is an error? That doesn't make sense.

The text is printed to stderr by the wrapper, which causes the cron
job to say that the aide run had errors. A clear false alarm.

> > I am not sure whether it should make sense to special-case this in the
> > cron job.
> > 
> > A workaround would to not disable the Debian Magic and to allow aide
> > to read its configuration from the autogenerated file.
> 
> I'll try it again. The first time I tried it, it ran for hours and
> reported too many benign changes. That's why I got rid of it. I have my
> config file tuned so that it doesn't send me any mail most days.

A different possibility would be to point UPAC_CONFDIR or UPAC_CONFD
to some other place in /etc/default/aide, disabling Debian's magic the
Debian way.

Greetings
Marc

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