Package: aide-common Severity: wishlist Tags: upstream Hi,
we should think about moving some of the Debian magic from the wrapper to the aide binary. Here is a number of ideas: (1) aide should really care about locking the database to avoid two concurrently running aide processes wrecking the database. In the minimum, care should be taken that no two processes have the database open for writing. (2) In Debian, we make sure that a --config-less aide call does not act on the default database. This is rather unelegant. Any ideas how to handle this more elegantly than pointing the compiled-in default to a non-existent directory? (3) Maybe, some indirection could be implemented in aide proper, such as /etc/aide/aide.conf: config-generator=/usr/sbin/update-aide.conf --output /var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated generated-config-file=/var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated having aide --config=/etc/aide/aide.conf first call the binary given as config-generator and then proceeding to read the newly-generated configuration. Greetings Marc
