Installing Aide: Yum install aide Creating the database: aide -c /etc/aide.conf –i Output : AIDE database at /var/lib/aide/aide.db.new.gz initialized. This process creates a new file, aide.db.new.gz in /var/lib/aide/.You must rename this file to aide.db.gz, which is the correct name for the AIDE database. Testing Aide: aide -c /etc/aide.conf –C