I notice that after having set up AIDE, and then doing an RPM or YUM update of 
a package, I then get spew about the contents of files related to that update 
having changed.

How difficult would it be to have a plugin for YUM that allows you to update 
the AIDE database with the new values (hashes, modes, owners, sizes, etc.) for 
the touched files?

Also, sometimes when you install a package that maintains a cache, logs, or a 
spool area, it’s not sufficient to have AIDE do a snapshot (via --update) right 
after installation, because the contents of those areas grow or change over 
time.

Immediately following installation, for instance, I might not have any new 
contents in /var/log/foobar, but some minutes or hours (or days) later a log 
file might have been created.

It’s unfortunate that AIDE can’t leverage the RPM %files section to figure out 
which directories (or patterns within directories, such as 
/var/log/package-xxxxx.log) change over time but should be ignored as 
non-anomalous.

How feasible would this be?

Thanks,

-Philip

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