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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