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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 1996 13:38:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Bryan Ogawa at Work <bogawa@netvoyage.net>
To:        stacy@ey.ca
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gremlins changing [cm]time on files?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960301133728.8083B-100000@digital.netvoyage.net>
In-Reply-To: <9603011814.AA04520@sobeco.sobeco.com>

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On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, s.millions wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am running "tripwire" on FBSD 2.1.0-Release system and I have had
> a strange problem crop up a couple of times now (it's been running
> for ~35 days now)
> 
> The ctime and mtime of some files are changing. It has happened twice
> now. I am fairly confident that there was no one on the machine both
> times that it happened. There was no modification to the data (the file
> sizes didn't change and the file signatures did not change).
> 
> The files in question are /usr/sbin/sendmail and /usr/local/etc/in.nnrpd
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> -stacy

I've experienced this as well on a 2.0.5-RELEASE machine.  I have less
certainty that no one did the deed, but the md5 signatures seem to be
identical, so I don't think this is the problem. 

bryan

> 
> -- 
> "I will finish what I st..."                                 stacy@ey.ca
>  - Bart Simpson
> 

Bryan K. Ogawa
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