NAME

       aideinit - create a new AIDE database

SYNOPSIS

       aideinit [options]

DESCRIPTION

       aideinit  creates  a  new  AIDE database. It will initialize an AIDE database in the default database_out
       location. It will then prompt you to replace your existing AIDE database. In most cases you will want  to
       check for any problems before doing this.

       aideinit  attempts  to automatically detect the correct locations of your database and database_out files
       based on your aide.conf settings. These settings may be overridden  on  the  command  line,  as  may  the
       prompts.

OPTIONS

       -y, --yes
              Overwrite database_out file

       -f, --force
              Force overwrite of database with new database

       -c, --config
              Specify alternate config file

       -o, --output
              Specify alternate output file

       -d, --database
              Specify alternate database file

       -b, --background
              Run in the background (will mail any errors to aide.conf MAILTO or root)

FILES

       /etc/aide/aide.conf, /etc/aide/aide.conf.d
              Default AIDE configuration files

       /var/lib/aide/aide.db
              Default location for AIDE database

       /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new
              Default location for newly-created AIDE database

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Mike Markley <mike@markley.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may
       be used by others).

                                                  Dec 19, 2003                                       AIDEINIT(8)