While running AIDE the program crashes or terminates after a few minites with the message shown below:

What is wrong here?

One website on the internet said to configure AIDE without mmaping - except it did not say how to do that or why one should do that?

What does this error mean and how do I fix it?

Thnaks.

R,

jyunker

It may be due to mmap (running 'aide -v'|grep MMAP;' should show) but it could also be a corrupt database. It's suggested elsewhere to rename your database, make 'aide -i' build a new one and then check that first.


Set the configure flag on recompiling AIDE. May look something like "--without-mmap".

Yes ,the corrupt database is a possibility. but it seems to happen everytime I run the system command:


aide --init.

everytime. The data base is created and is named aide.db.new.gz and I then move or rename it aide.db.gxz, but keep it in the same folder -var/lib/aide.

Is this what they are referrring to as the corrupt database - aide.db.new.gx or aide.db.new.gz?

I do rename it. If it is corrupt then what do with it?

This problem is addressed in other version of Linux, such as Ubuntu. I am using Centos 6.5, 64 bit. It seems to not have been addressed in Centos - at least not yet. the recommendations to handle this issue in Ubuntu simply do not apply to Centos.

Any other ideas?

Do you know if there is an AIDe form?

Tanks.

R,

jyunker

I am not sure what you mean by:

I installed AIDE by sudo yum install aide. I did not compile it.

R,

jyunker

No.


Unless a process would be (unable to finish) writing to a "database" while you move it and you would kill the application in the process then yes, that could lead to corruption. (Not in the case of AIDE, IIRC it's just a compressed plain text file.) Moving, renaming itself does not and generally speaking should not be a cause for corruption.


Where does it state this has been addressed?


"Form"? what kind of "form" do you mean?


OK, so you did not compile it but you might have to.

Sorry for my confusing writting. I of course do not need to know where an AIDE form is, but an AIDE Forum. Where is that?

I did try to compile AIDE using the *tar.gz version. When I tried to configure, it said that I did not have zlib installed properly.

I checked, I did have zlib installed, but I did uninstall and reinstall it, but still it did not like the way I had zlib installed when I typed ./configure again. .

I tried to configure without zlib and got other errors. The zlib install is fine for the *.rpm install, but not for the tar.gz install - interesting.

I would just like to install AIDE, whatever way works and then use it. What does it mean during ./configure when it says zlib not installed properly. It seems to pass zlib testing during the configure step, yet it still gives this error.

I looked on the internet and found no satisfying answer to this issue.


Thanks.

R,


jyunker

When I say thaa this issue has been addressed in other linux forums, I mean that it
has, but that the recommendations to fix it require running some command particular to
that flavor of linux. This solution simply would not apply in Centos 6.5, 64 bit. This
command is not available in Centos.

So what else can I use.

thanks.

R,

jyunker

So what is next? I just cannot get the aide program to run to
completion. The program aide --init crashes.

It is not clear why.

I have tried a few things, but none work.

In one post it was suggested that logs be checked. I think they must mean
Centos operational logs. The aide log just repeats the error.

Where are the Centos logs that I can check?

Thanks.

R,


jyunker

None, there is a mamiling list though: see the documentation.


Try before compiling.


Post that command in full, or better, where you've read about it?

Okay, I reinstalled zlib-devel. It was already installed so I only reinstalled it. What do I do know. Try to recompile AIDE the traditional way?

I will.


R,


jyunker

Okay it still said when I issued the command

./configure

that zlib was not installed properly. It was installed, so just to be safe I then reinstalled it.

It still said zlib not installed properly.

Above is the output of the screen when I run the configure command with no options, just


./configure

I could try and configure without zlib, but it just gives another error. I am not sure what it means when it says zlib not installed properly.

It seems to have no problem with zlib when I run ./configure,

but hangs on


checking for deflate in -lz... no


what does that mean?


Thanks in advance.

R,


jyunker

Actually I tried this on a recent machine running Fedora, zlib and zlib-devel and I got the same error. I'd say get on the mailing list: https://mailman.cs.tut.fi/mailman/listinfo/aide

I think that I have found what could be the answer to this problem. The link is:


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554490

It gives a Rehat patch that it claims will work. RedHat has not

made it a permanent part of the distribution. I am using Centos 6.5, 64 bit.

The patch seems to be a bunch of computer code. How do I use it?

Why did RedHat make it a part of their system. If you check out the link
you will see that they declined to do so.

Thanks in advance.

R,

jyunker

This thread is at a dead end. The patch is for aide 0.13 and I am using aide 0.15.

There is nothing in the documentation to make me think that the patch applies to
anything other than aide 0.13.

So this thread is dead.

R,


jyunker

// FWIW the OPs thread continues here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...-a-4175498481/