adapt aide to distribution

aideCheck.sh

@@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ CHANGED_ALERT=1
 ADDED_ALERT=1
 # Set to 1 to run automatic aide update after execution (not recommended)
 AIDE_UPDATE=0
+# You may want to point to a specific aide configuration file, depending on your setup and distribution
+AIDE=aide
+if [ -f /etc/debian_version ]; then
+  AIDE="aide -c /etc/aide/aide.conf"
+fi
+if [ -f /etc/redhat-release ]; then
+  AIDE="aide -c /etc/aide.conf"
+fi
 
 # Nothing to be modified below this line
 ########################################################################
@@ -25,6 +33,7 @@ MYHOST=`hostname`
 MYIP=`hostname -i`
 ALERTRV=0
 TMP=/var/lib/aide/aideCheck.$$.txt
+AIDE="aide -c /etc/aide/aide.conf"
 
 umask 077
 
@@ -35,7 +44,11 @@ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
   exit 10
 fi
 
-aide --help 1>/dev/null 2>&1
+if [ -f /etc/devian_version ]; then
+  # aide needs explicit config 
+  AIDE="aide -c /etc/aide/aide.conf "
+fi
+$AIDE --help 1>/dev/null 2>&1
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then  
   echo "Error: you need AIDE to watch for system changes, and to setup AIDE on first use"       
   echo "ex: yum install aide"
@@ -46,7 +59,7 @@ fi
 echo "AIDE check report for: $MYHOST ($MYIP)" > $TMP.mailReport
 
 # Run a diagonstic, this can take some time and CPU, be nice
-nice aide --check > $TMP
+nice $AIDE --check > $TMP
 
 # Look for issues, alert if any
 if [ $CHANGED_ALERT -eq 1 ]; then
@@ -72,7 +85,7 @@ if [ $nbLines -ne 0 ]; then
 
   if [ $AIDE_UPDATE -eq 1 ]; then
     echo "Running aide --update to refresh the baseline. Warning : you may miss important alerts, you should not use this setting in production" >> $TMP.mailReport
-    nice aide --update 1>>$TMP.mailReport 2>&1
+    nice $AIDE --update 1>>$TMP.mailReport 2>&1
   fi
 
   # send the alert if needed