Provided by:
aide_0.10-11_i386 
NAME
aide - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment
SYNOPSIS
aide [options] command
DESCRIPTION
aide is an intrusion detection system for checking the integrity of
files.
COMMANDS
--check, -C
Checks the database for inconsistencies. You must have an
initialized database to do this. This is also the default
option. Without any command aide does a check.
--init, -i
Initialize the database. You must initialize a database and move
it to the appropriate place before you can use the --check
option.
--update, -u
Checks the database and updates the database non-interactively.
The input and output databases must be different.
--compare
Compares two databases. They must be defined in configfile with
database=<url> and database_new=<url>.
PARAMETERS
--config=configfile, -c configfile
Configuration is read from file configfile instead of
"./aide.conf". Use ’-’ for stdin.
--before=configparameters, -B configparameters
These configparameters are handled before the reading of the
configuration file. See aide.conf (5) for more details on what
to put here.
--after=configparameters, -A configparameters
These configparameters are handled after the reading of the
configuration file. See aide.conf (5) for more details on what
to put here.
--verbose=verbosity_level, -Vverbosity_level
Controls how verbose aide is. Value must [0-255]. The default is
5. With no argument Value is set to 20. This option overrides
the value set in a configuration file.
--report=reporter, -r reporter
reporter is a URL which tells aide where to send it’s output.
See aide.conf (5) section URLS for available values.
--version, -v
aide prints out its version number
--help, -h
Prints out the standard help message.
FILES
/etc/aide/aide.conf Default aide configuration file.
/etc/aide/aide.conf.d Config snippets which are automatically
concatenated to the configuration file by update-aide.conf
/var/lib/aide/aide.db Default aide database. /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new
Default aide output database.
SEE ALSO
aide.conf(5) http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide/manual.html
BUGS
There are probably bugs in this release. Please report them to
rammer@cs.tut.fi and to the Debian BTS. Bug fixes are more than
welcome. Unified diffs are preferred.
DISCLAIMER
All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. No animals
were harmed while making this webpage or this piece of software.
Although some pizza delivery guy’s feelings were hurt.
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