On Sun, 20 May 2007, Martin Pitt wrote:
I do not know aide at all, but from looking at this I concur to Peter
that it seems questionable to me to check /var/lib by default and then
spread such global 'ignore /var' patterns across all the packages
that use /var.
Well, as I said, Aide knows different types of checking and while
we all know that /var/lib is changing frequently without any
unfriendly intrusion it is just a matter in which kind /var/lib
is changing. That's why Aide tries to regard different ways of
changes that have to be specified.
Also, above rule would not really fit well. People might configure
other clusters (such has having 7.4/transition, 8.1/main, 8.2/master
and 8.2/slave), so I would not like to hardcode cluster and version
names. OTOH, '!/var/lib/postgresql/' looks too blunt to me to be
really useful, but that's just my gut feeling.
So would '!/var/lib/postgresql/' still be useful at all? What about
/var/log/postgresql?
Well, I'm not an Aide expert as well - I just have seen that it contains
aide.conf.d files for several packages but postgresql is missing.
Because I do not see a reason why postgresql is missing but several
other packages provide such scripts I think we should perhaps
discuss this issue on debian-devel (or any other reasonable place)
because I see no reason if we as non experts in this issue try
to find a clever solution.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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