For More Information - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 11 - SECURITY Manual

Procedure 13.1 Starting a Rescue System with AIDE
1 You need a second machine that provides an ftp server.
2 Copy the packages aide and mhash to the ftp server directory, in our case
3 Create an info file /srv/ftp/info.txt that provides the needed boot param-
4 Restart the server that should go through an AIDE check with the Rescue system
After the rescue system has booted, the AIDE program is ready for usage.

13.4 For More Information

Information about AIDE is available at the following places:
• In the documented template configuration /etc/aide.conf.
• In several files below /usr/share/doc/packages/aide.
• On the AIDE user mailing list, found at
mailman/listinfo/aide.
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/srv/ftp:
cp DVD1/suse/<architecture>/aide<version_string>.<architecture>.rpm
/srv/ftp
cp DVD1/suse/<architecture>/mhash<version_string>.<architecture>.rpm
/srv/ftp
eters for the rescue system:
dud:ftp://<ftp_server>/aide<version_string>.<architecture>.rpm
dud:ftp://<ftp_server>/mhash<version_string>.<architecture>.rpm
Replace ftp_server, version_string and architecture with the values used on your
system.
from your DVD. Add the following string to the boot parameters:
info=ftp://<ftp_server>/info.txt
This parameter tells linuxrc to also read in all information from the info.txt
file.
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