AIDEINIT(8)

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💖 AIDEINIT(8) — the system manager's manual, but make it slay 💖

okay bestie, welcome to aideinit, straight out of the System Manager's Manual section 8. this is the girl who creates a new AIDE database, and she is so good at it. let's get into it 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

aideinit — create a new AIDE database 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

aideinit [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no positional args, just options, periodt. 🎀

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so, aideinit creates a new AIDE database. icon behaviour, honestly. it'll initialize an AIDE database in the default database_out location. then — and this is the part where you pay attention — it will prompt you to replace your existing AIDE database. 👑

in most cases you will want to check for any problems before doing this. like, fr fr, don't just smash yes. 🔥

aideinit attempts to automatically detect the correct locations of your database and database_out files based on your aide.conf settings. these settings may be overridden on the command line, as may the prompts. so you can take the wheel if you want to be the main character. 💅

ngl, the "check for any problems first" thing is not optional energy. do the vibe check on your new database before you let it overwrite the old one. 🙈

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -y, --yes — overwrite database_out file 💖
  • -f, --force — force overwrite of database with new database 🔥 (yes, force. she means it.)
  • -c, --config — specify alternate config file 🎀
  • -o, --output — specify alternate output file ✨
  • -d, --database — specify alternate database file 🌸
  • -b, --background — run in the background (will mail any errors to aide.conf MAILTO or root) 🦋

✨ FILES ✨

  • /etc/aide/aide.conf, /etc/aide/aide.conf.d — default AIDE configuration files 🎀
  • /var/lib/aide/aide.db — default location for AIDE database 💜
  • /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new — default location for newly-created AIDE database ⭐

✨ AUTHOR ✨

this manual page was written by Mike Markley <mike@markley.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). shoutout, we love a contributor 🫶

aaaand that's the page bestie 💖 it's AIDEINIT(8) from the System Manager's Manual, dated Dec 19, 2003 — yes she's vintage, no she's not expired, she's iconic. go initialize that database responsibly, mwah 💅🌸

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