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+#AIDE conf
+
+database=file:/var/lib/aide/aide.db
+database_out=file:/var/lib/aide/aide.db.new
+
+ # Here are all the things we can check - these are the default rules
+ #
+ #p: permissions
+ #i: inode
+ #n: number of links
+ #u: user
+ #g: group
+ #s: size
+ #b: block count
+ #m: mtime
+ #a: atime
+ #c: ctime
+ #S: check for growing size
+ #md5: md5 checksum
+ #sha1: sha1 checksum
+ #rmd160: rmd160 checksum
+ #tiger: tiger checksum
+ #R: p+i+n+u+g+s+m+c+md5
+ #L: p+i+n+u+g
+ #E: Empty group
+ #>: Growing logfile p+u+g+i+n+S
+
+ # You can alse create custom rules - my home made rule definition goes like this
+ #
+# /etc p+i+u+g #check only permissions, inode, user and group for etc
+# /bin MyRule # apply the custom rule to the files in bin
+# /sbin MyRule # apply the same custom rule to the files in sbin
+# /usr/bin MyRule
+# /usr/sbin MyRule
+# /var MyRule
+# !/var/log/.* # ignore the log dir it changes too often
+# !/var/spool/.* # ignore spool dirs as they change too often
+
+MyRule = p+i+n+u+g+s+b+m+c+md5+sha1
+All=R+a+sha1+rmd160+tiger
+Standard=s+p+u+g+c+md5+sha1
+Min=s+p+u+g+c+sha1
+Minetc=s+p+u+g+sha1
+
+/boot Standard
+/lib Standard
+/etc Minetc
+/bin Standard
+/sbin MyRule
+/usr/sbin MyRule
+!/usr/tmp
+!/usr/local/man/whatis
+!/usr/lib/perl5/man/whatis
+!/usr/share/man/whatis
+!/usr/X11R6/man/whatis
+/usr Standard
+/usr/local/etc Min
+/var Min
+/var/lib/rpm Standard
+!/var/tmp
+!/var/lock
+!/var/lost+found
+!/var/log
+!/var/spool
+!/var/run
+!/var/account
+!/var/lib
+!/var/cache
+!/var/mail