AIDE.SERVICE(8)

💖 NAME 💖 — the AIDE.SERVICE(8) edition

aide — Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment

the systemd environment era, bestie 🫶

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🛠️ SYNOPSIS 🛠️

aide.service
aide.timer

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so for easier maintenance of big clusters, aide can be run by systemd.timer(5) in regular intervals. lowkey iconic scheduling behavior 💅

the specific time can be set in /usr/lib/systemd/system/aide.timer (tag OnCalendar), or it can be configured in /etc/systemd/system/aide.timer.d/local.conf. see systemd.unit(5) for more information 👑

the timer can be manually started via the call systemctl start aide.timer, or it can be started while the boot process which has been enabled by the call systemctl enable aide.timer. main character timer energy fr fr 🕰️✨

the result of the check will be written to /var/log/aide_service.log. this can be set in the file /etc/aide_systemd.conf 🎀

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💡 HINT 💡

keep in mind that you have to init the database with the call

aide --init ; cp /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new /var/lib/aide/aide.db

at first before you are starting this service. do not skip this step, bestie 😭🫶

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• aide(1)
• aide.conf(5)

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signed, sealed, and slayed: aide v0.17.3, dated 2021-02-10, from the AIDE.SERVICE(8) manual 💅🌈✨