Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:52:15 -0500 (CDT) From: john <john@unt.edu> To: rotel@indigo.ie Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: date on schg files changing, how? Message-ID: <199807291252.HAA18461@leonardo.cascss.unt.edu> In-Reply-To: <199807282100.WAA01034@indigo.ie> from Niall Smart at "Jul 28, 98 10:00:18 pm"
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> On Jul 28, 10:49am, Kenneth Ingham wrote: > } Subject: date on schg files changing, how? > > On a machine running 2.2.6 from the CD, I see the following type of > > thing regularly: > > > > Differences in special files: > > 28c28 > > < -r-sr-xr-x 5 root bin schg 286720 Jul 9 00:00:27 1998 /usr/sbin/sendmail > > --- > > > -r-sr-xr-x 5 root bin schg 286720 Jul 11 00:00:03 1998 /usr/sbin/sendmail > > > Kenneth, > > I think I have seen this before, it is rumored to be a bug in the FS code > which causes random date changes on files. Can anyone confirm or deny > this? I believe if we check further with Kenneth that permissions are being changed on the sendmail files as well--I ran into the exact problem when I was using cron to run sendmail. Mail would break often and it was because the suid bits on sendmail were being removed automagically by some wierd interaction between sendmail/cron. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message
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