aide(1)                                                                                                                                           aide(1)

NAME
      aide - Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment

SYNOPSIS
      aide [options] command

DESCRIPTION
      aide is an intrusion detection system for checking the integrity of files.

COMMANDS
      --check,
             Checks  the  database  for  inconsistencies. You must have an initialized database to do this. This is also the default option. Without any
             command aide does a check.

      --init,
             Initialize the database. You must initialize a database and move it to the appropriate place before you can use the --check option.

      --update,
             Checks the database and updates the database non-interactively.  The input and output databases must be different.

      --compare
             Compares two databases. They must be defined in configfile with database=<url> and database_new=<url>.

PARAMETERS
      --config=configfile
             Configuration is read from file configfile instead of "./aide.conf". Use '-' for stdin.

      --before="configparameters"
             These configparameters are handled before the reading of the configuration file. See aide.conf (5) for more details on what to put here.

      --after="configparameters"
             These configparameters are handled after the reading of the configuration file. See aide.conf (5) for more details on what to put here.

      --verbose=verbosity_level,-Vverbosity_level
             Controls how verbose aide is. Value must [0-255]. The default is 5. With no argument Value is set to 20. This option  overrides  the  value
             set in a configuration file.

      --report=reporter,-r
             reporter is a URL which tells aide where to send it's output. See aide.conf (5) section URLS for available values.

      --version,-v
             aide prints out its version number

      --help,-h
             Prints out the standard help message.

FILES
      <prefix>/etc/aide.conf Default aide configuration file.  <prefix>/etc/aide.db Default aide database.  <prefix>/etc/aide.db.
new Default aide output
      database.