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Date:      Tue, 16 Dec 1997 22:38:16 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        dhawk@river.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is this something to worry about?
Message-ID:  <199712170338.WAA01537@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199712170222.MAA01090@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Dec 17, 97 12:52:42 pm"

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Mike Smith said:
> > Background: today I did a make and install in /usr/ports/x11/XFree86
> > and XFree86-contrib and I thought I hadn't touched /usr/bin
> > but noticed this later in the day:
> > 
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin        123 Dec  6 07:02 linux
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin        122 Dec  6 07:02 qcam
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin      16384 Dec 16 05:00 tail
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin     126976 Dec 16 10:55 awk
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1 bin   bin      12288 Dec 16 11:35 du
> > 
> > That the last three files there were modified today. I'm not aware of
> > anything on the system that would have modified 'tail' at 5am.
> 
> This is a "feature" of the system; occasionally executables appear to 
> be written to while they're running.  Nobody has been able to work out 
> why; the write doesn't appear to change any of the actual contents of 
> the file.
> 
I think that it has been fixed in the 3.0 line of code.  Let me know if there
is ANY of this happening on -current!

-- 
John                  | Never try to teach a pig to sing,
dyson@freebsd.org     | it just makes you look stupid, and
jdyson@nc.com         | it irritates the pig.



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