Hello AIDE experts

My query is that I am using in aide.conf:

report_url=file:<some pathname>
report_url=syslog:LOCAL6

And a line in rsyslog.conf that writes that facility to a logfile as per usual 
syslog behaviour.

However I found that whereas running report_url=<logfile> as well as the use of 
syslog there are differences in the report.  Specifically there is a major 
difference in file sizes as for example:

-rw-r--r--. 1 <user> <group>   698119 Jan 15 12:01 aide.log
-rw-------. 1 root      root           22443 Jan 15 12:01 aide.syslog

Now the reason for wanting the syslog capability to work is so that each line 
has a good log timestamp.  Our log scraping facility will remotely copy the 
file elsewhere for analysis/archive.  As far as I know, AIDE does not timestamp 
(in 0.14) any lines or AIDE runs.

Our current version on RHEL6 is 0.14 and due to current project constraints 
this is not likely to change soon.
While accepting this is an OLD version of AIDE, and NOT maintained anymore I 
assume, can the expert(s) clarify:

a) does V0.16 fix what I see above?
b) is there a reason why this does not work in 0.14?
c) should we do it another way that is more AIDE compatible (assumes that 
answer to (b) is yes there is a reason)?

Thank you for your attention.

Phil

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