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

[Marc Haber]

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.

>  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, and thus a report will be generated.

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.

Greetings
Marc

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