.TH UPDATE-AIDE.CONF 8 "Jan 25, 2013"
.SH NAME
update-aide.conf \- build run-time AIDE configuration
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B update-aide.conf
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B update-aide.conf
rebuilds the runtime AIDE configuration. /etc/aide/aide.conf and the
contents of the /etc/aide/aide.conf.d directory. If one of these files
is executable,
.B update-aide.conf
executes the file and uses its stdout for the AIDE configuration. For
files that are not executable, their contents is copied into AIDE
configuration verbatim. The input paths can be controlled from the
command line or using configuration options in /etc/default/aide.
.B update-aide.conf
is primarily used by 
.B aideinit
(8), the 
.B aide
wrapper and and the 
.B /etc/cron.daily/aide
script.
.PP
Debian Packages might drop configuration snippets in
.B /etc/aide/aide.conf.d
, which will be picked up automatically by aide
if the default paths are used. If you would prefer to control your
rules yourself, you might want to point
.B update-aide.conf
to a different conf.d directory by configuring
.B /etc/default/aide
appropriately. You can then use symlinks to select Debian rules. Or
you can edit the files dropped into 
.B /etc/aide/aide.conf.d
yourself, they are dpkg-conffiles.
.PP
All command line settings can also be overridden by setting the
appropriate environment variable from /etc/default/aide. Additionally,
values set in the environment prior to the call to update-aide.conf
are also honored. The location of the defaults file can also be
overridden from the environment.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B -v, --verbose
Enable verbose mode, tell about ignored files
.TP
.B -h, --help
Show this message
.TP
.B --keepcomments
Do not remove comment lines
.TP
.B --removecomments
Remove comment lines (default)
.TP
.B -o, --output
write output to file instead of /var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated
.TP
.B -d, --confdir 
read input from given directory instead of /etc/aide. Can be overridden using
UPAC_CONFDIR.
.TP
.B -D, --confd
read config file snippets from given directory instead of
/etc/aide/aide.conf.d. Can be overridden using UPAC_CONFD.
.TP
.B -S, --settingsd
read settings files from given directory instead of
/etc/aide/aide.settings.d. Can be overridden using UPAC_SETTINGSD.
.TP
.B -a, --autoconfigfile
write output to the given file instead of
/var/lib/aide/aide.conf.autogenerated. Can be overridden using
UPAC_AUTOCONFIGFILE.
.TP
.B -m, --mainconfigfile
read main part of aide configuration from given file instead of
/etc/aide/aide.conf. Can be overridden using UPAC_MAINCONFIGFILE
.SH FILES
.TP
.B /etc/aide/aide.conf
main AIDE configuration file
.TP
.B /etc/aide/aide.conf.d
configuration file fragments to be added to the master configuration file
.TP
.B /etc/aide/aide.settings.d
settings files parsed by some configuration files in UPAC_CONFD.
.TP
.B /etc/default/aide
Debian aide defaults file used for permanently overriding some option
defaults. This can be overridden from the environment using the
UPAC_DEFAULTFILE variable.
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Mike Markley <mike@markley.org> and
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, for the Debian GNU/Linux
system (but may be used by others).