Aide WARNING: Old db contains a file that shouldn't be there, run --init or --update"

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Issue

  • "We have a cron job(/usr/sbin/aide --check) that runs daily and several machines are reporting "WARNING: Old db contains a file that shouldn't be there, run --init or --update"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7
  • aide

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