simulation mode

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This is a summary of https://sourceforge.net/p/aide/feature-requests/1/ and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=289174

Hi,

even if i have some background in regular expressions
it's in some cases not clear to me what happens and why
some directories are added and others not.

What i miss is a kind of simulation mode where i can
see which directories or files will be added. Its very
hard if you have to wait for the result after a small
change in the config file. Also it's very hard to check
the database file whether a directory was added or not.
With this simulation mode you may check immediately
whether your appliied rules deliver the result you
expected.

Regards,

Wilhelm

Hi,

even after using aide for five years now, I need multiple attempts to
get the regexps right. aide's way of demanding and not demanding
escape backslashes does not seem to be consistent to neither standard,
extended or perl regexps.

Debugging this is quite tedious since the turnaround times are bad
because one needs to do cryptographic operations.

How about having an option which parses the config file and the
filesystem, and outputs for each file found the aide expression that
would be used for this file if a real aide run would be invoked with
this config file.

Greetings
Marc