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

[Bill Wohler]

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 ;-).

> >  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.

> 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.

Thanks for maintaining aide!

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Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com>  http://www.newt.com/wohler/  GnuPG ID:610BD9AD