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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by singularity2001 on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @05:49PM (#14649818)
what a horrible interface

  aide 
  Couldn't open file /var/lib/aide/please-dont-call-aide-without-parameters/aide.db for reading

  aide -i
  Couldn't open file /var/lib/aide/please-dont-call-aide-without-parameters/aide.db.new for writing
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Re:Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global by tyingq on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @06:53PM (#14650286)
I suppose, but it's not really made as a one off run-a-command type tool. It needs set up so that you can compare now to then.

Having no parameters specified doing something real is probably not desired, as it would overwrite the DB that your aide Cron job is running.

That's why your Linux distro (not aide) picked those funny defaults.

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