Linux Firewalls, Third Edition

Changing the Output of the AIDE Report

You might want a little more flexibility in the location of the AIDE report. For example, you may not want to receive emails if everything is okay with the AIDE report, or you may want to have AIDE report into a file instead of providing standard output. AIDE has four basic options for configuring output that can be configured through the AIDE configuration file.

LINUX OUTPUT STREAMS Linux has three generic streams of output that are created when a program runs. These streams are referred to as STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, which are abbreviations for Standard Input, Standard Output, and Standard Error, respectively. When you see a referral to STDOUT, it refers to the normal method of output to the screen, ...