Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 08:05:02 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Kammerhofer <dada@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at> To: David Hawkins <dhawk@river.org> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is this something to worry about? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971217080125.2048B-100000@localhost.tu-graz.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <199712170222.MAA01090@word.smith.net.au>
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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > 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. > > mike > And it breaks things like tripwire ;-I
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