Package: aide
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
At every run of /etc/cron.daily/aide, a temporary file in /tmp gets
left behind when AIDE is set to run in quiet mode. This results in
lots of /tmp/error* files after a while.
$ ls /tmp/error* | wc -l
35
The cause is an 'exit 0' statement in the cronjob, which gets
executed before the cleanup of the temporary file when quiet mode
is enabled.
Here's a small patch which removes the temporary file for two
additional exit paths in the cronjob.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.5
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
--- debian/aide.cron.old 2005-08-30 15:23:15.000000000 +0200
+++ debian/aide.cron 2005-08-30 15:23:48.000000000 +0200
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
echo "Fatal error: The AIDE database does not exist!"
echo "This may mean you haven't created it, or it may mean that someone
has removed it."
) | /usr/bin/mail -s "Daily AIDE report for $FQDN" $MAILTO
+ rm -f "$ERRORTMP"
exit 0
fi
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@
if [ -n "$QUIETREPORTS" ] && [ $QUIETREPORTS -a \! -s $LOGDIR/$LOGFILE -a \!
-s $ERRORTMP ]; then
# Bail now because there was no output and QUIETREPORTS is set
+ rm -f "$ERRORTMP"
exit 0
fi
