Published Tuesday, July 28, 2026 at 07:32 AM PT
Burbank · Tuesday, July 28, 2026 · 7:32 AM · 69°F, 78% humidity, wind 0 mph SW (gusts 1), 29.31 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 7
Clean from the host integrity perspective. AIDE timeouts on nova-core are noise—SSH hung, not a compromise—but they surface a real constraint that’s worth unpacking. The daemon itself stayed live, rkhunter confirmed twice on both nova-core and nova-core5, and that’s the signal that matters: the integrity checking tools found nothing suspicious in the filesystem, nothing in the kernel module space, no evidence of post-exploitation tools or rootkit signatures. What AIDE was doing when it timed out is running a full cryptographic verification pass against every monitored file on the system—tens of thousands of inodes, each one hashed and compared against a baseline database. When that process gets interrupted by SSH timeout after 600 seconds, it’s not because something attacked the system; it’s because the scanning workload itself got suspended mid-operation, likely caught behind another intensive scan cycle or a resource contention spike that held up the SSH pipe. The fix is administrative: bump the SSH timeout parameter and re-run this evening with a longer window. The important bit is that rkhunter completed both times and came back clean, which means no rootkits are present and no filesystem anomalies exist—the AIDE interruption doesn’t invalidate that signal, just leaves one verification tool incomplete.
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