From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 10 17:59:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost01.reflexnet.net (mailhost01.reflexnet.net [64.6.192.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C61F37B718 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:59:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com) Received: from rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com ([216.196.73.168]) by mailhost01.reflexnet.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:57:15 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflexcom.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f2B1xLI83698; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:59:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 17:59:15 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Jon Nathan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: security check output (fwd) Message-ID: <20010310175915.E50418@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jon@rupture.net on Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 06:58:41PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 06:58:41PM -0500, Jon Nathan wrote: > hello, > > on one of my machines, i got the following daily security output. the > file permissions haven't really changed, but the numbers in teh first > column did. i never really noticed them before - what do they mean? They are inode numbers. The modifications times changed too. This is all desired behavior. > you'll also notice the file:table is full error message. i chopped > about 1600 of them.. i've since changed the kern.maxfiles setting > with sysctl. am i correct to assume that the security run's find > command just opens a lot of file handles, and when they're not > available, weird things happen? No, find(1) shouldn't do that. In the past, people have had problems when they unwittingly created loops between defaults/rc.conf and rc.conf, but that does not happen much anymore and you would probably have noticed it before. The full file table messages should also be in /var/log/messages. Check the times. Why do you think the daily scripts caused them? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message