NAME

       aide.wrapper - call aide binary for Debian mechanisms

SYNOPSIS

       aide.wrapper [options]

DESCRIPTION

       aide.wrapper calls the aide binary with --config appropriate for the mechanisms automatically used in the
       Debian package. To prevent damage to the database, aide.wrapper takes out a lock and will refuse to run a
       second aide process when there is still another one running.

       If     no     --config    option    explicitly    given,    aide.wrapper    will    set    --config    to
       /var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated, invoke update-aide.conf, and use  aide  --config-check  to  verify
       correctness of the configuration prior to invoking the aide binary.

OPTIONS

       aide.wrapper  hands  down  all  options down to the aide binary verbatim and only detects the presence of
       --config to determine whether to call update-aide.conf or not.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Normally, the exit status is 0 if no errors occurred. An exit status below 100 is the  exit  status  from
       the actual aide binary, as documented in its own man page. The wrapper's own exit codes are defined as:

       250 problem finding the aide binary

       251 cannot obtain lock file

       255 there was an error running aide --config-check

FILES

       /etc/aide/aide.conf
              AIDE configuration file

       /usr/bin/aide
              AIDE binary

       /var/run/aide.lock
              Lock file

ENVIRONMENT

       The  environment  variable  DBAGE  can  be used to control the aide run respective to the age of the aide
       databases in /var/lib/aide/aide.db(.new). This is useful when the  local  admin  manually  recreates  the
       database, preventing an automated aide run (for example from cron) from clobbering the database the local
       admin  might  be  inspecting  at  the  moment.  If DBAGE is set to a non-zero value (for example from the
       crontab), and one of the databases is younger than DBAGE seconds,  the  wrapper  will  print  a  warning,
       terminate without running aide and return an exit status of 0. The default value of DBAGE is 0.

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was  written by Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux
       system (but may be used by others).

SEE ALSO

       aide's command line options and exit statuses are documented in its own man page, aide(1).

                                                  Jun 20, 2018                                   AIDE.WRAPPER(8)