[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#514686: Bug#514686: Must turn off noclobber in the cron job, otherwise aide fails

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:42:12PM -0500, Jon Schewe wrote:
> Unless I comment out the setting of no clobber "set -C" at the top of
> the aide script I get the following error:
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/aide:
> /etc/cron.daily/aide: line 277: /tmp/aidenxaiq8E: cannot overwrite
> existing file
> run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/aide exited with return code 1

The tempfile handling in the daily cron job has been massively
re-worked since aide 0.13.1-2. Does this still apply to current aide?

Greetings
Marc

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