Package: aide Version: 0.10-6.1 Followup-For: Bug #260942 In the initial /etc/default/aide, the variable NOISE is defined without masking the special characters for grep, i.e. the "|" and "(" and ")".
Additionally adding /var/log would reduce the output significantly, though some logs may be of interest? Following diff helps me: =================================================================== RCS file: /etc/default/RCS/aide,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 /etc/default/aide --- /etc/default/aide 2005-02-18 08:37:30+01 1.1 +++ /etc/default/aide 2005-04-25 15:34:31+02 @@ -22,4 +22,4 @@ # This parameter gives a grep regular expression. If given, all output lines # that _don't_ match the regexp are listed first in the script's output. This # allows to easily remove noise from the aide report. -NOISE="(/var/cache/dwww|/var/backups|/var/lib/dwww/html)" +NOISE="\(/var/cache/dwww\|/var/backups\|/var/lib/dwww/html\|/var/log\)" =================================================================== Maybe also a hint would be helpful that this setting is prepended by "^\(changed\|removed\|added\):" in /etc/cron.daily/aide. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages aide depends on: ii debconf 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii mailx 1:8.1.2-0.20040524cvs-4 A simple mail user agent -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]