[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#289171: aide: please add an option to quicky check for config file syntax

[Marc Haber]

tags #289171 upstream confirmed
thanks

On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 09:27:16PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 05:43:20PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > it would be desireable to be able to check a config file for correct
> > syntax, returning a non-zero exit code on an incorrect config file.
> 
> This is already partly implemented. Aide takes a --config-check
> parameter. However, this doesn't work as advertised (doesn't detect
> some errors which are flagged as such on aide --check), and it is not
> documented in the man page.

It is now documented. I added code to the wrapper to use --config check
before invoking the real thing, that'll help verifying whether
config-check will detect all errors that will influence the actual aide
run.

Greetings
Marc

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