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)