Hi,

Does anyone use aide from SL repo? It has version 0.14 and creates
corrupt initial database.

To reproduce the problem:
# yum install aide
# aide -i
# cd /var/lib/aide
# mv aide.db.new.gz aide.db.gz
# aide

Output is:
Error reading gzipped file: <fd:5>: buffer error

# gzip -t /var/lib/aide/aide.db.gz

gzip: /var/lib/aide/aide.db.gz: unexpected end of file

Relevant TUV bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=574764

Solution:
- update to version 14-2 (fc14)

My workaround with this version:
- disable compression in /etc/aide.conf

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diff -u /etc/aide.conf.orig /etc/aide.conf
--- /etc/aide.conf.orig 2012-07-23 11:54:02.951061516 +0200
+++ /etc/aide.conf      2012-07-23 11:53:40.855027455 +0200
@@ -4,15 +4,17 @@
 @@define LOGDIR /var/log/aide
 
 # The location of the database to be read.
-database=file:@@{DBDIR}/aide.db.gz
+#database=file:@@{DBDIR}/aide.db.gz
+database=file:@@{DBDIR}/aide.db
 
 # The location of the database to be written.
 #database_out=sql:host:port:database:login_name:passwd:table
 #database_out=file:aide.db.new
-database_out=file:@@{DBDIR}/aide.db.new.gz
+#database_out=file:@@{DBDIR}/aide.db.new.gz
+database_out=file:@@{DBDIR}/aide.db.new
 
 # Whether to gzip the output to database
-gzip_dbout=yes
+#gzip_dbout=yes
 
 # Default.
 verbose=5
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Could anyone confirm that the official version from SL repo is buggy at
you too?

@devs: is it in plan to update the pkg?


Thanks!

Andras