[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#442214: aide: Aide issues false alarms

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 08:21:31AM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> >            This might be necessary for the ANF/ARF feature to properly
> > +handle logs that have been rotated multiple times. COPYNEWDB="no" is
> > +the default because automatically copying the database unconditionally
> > +(COPYNEWDB="yes") might be dangerous since detected changes are only
> > +reported once. Additionally, if you do not manually increase the
> > +verbosity level by setting (for example) AIDEARGE="-V5" in
> > +/etc/default/aide, you lose the possibility of inspecting the changes
> > +more closely.
> 
> Since COPYNEWDB="yes" was parenthetical, that last sentence seems more
> associated with the subject of the previous subject, namely,
> COPYNEWDB="no". What do you think of this?

I do not understand clearly. COPYNEWDB="no" always allows you to
inspect the changes more closely by re-running aide.

> COPYNEWDB="no" is the default because automatically copying the database
> unconditionally (COPYNEWDB="yes") might be dangerous since detected
> changes are only reported once. Because changes are only reported once
> when using COPYNEWDB="yes" and you lose the possibility of inspecting
> the changes more closely, increase the verbosity level by setting, for
> example, AIDEARGE="-V5" in /etc/default/aide so that the report has
> enough detail to diagnose problems.

"Changes are only reported once" is repeated, that's a stylistical
issue that jumps even into my non-native eyes. Additionally, the long
second sentence is kind of hard to parse. I still prefer my version,
but that may be a language issue.

Greetings
Marc

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