From owner-freebsd-security Wed Jul 29 05:54:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA17265 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 05:54:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Mercury.unix.acs.cc.unt.edu (mercury.acs.unt.edu [129.120.220.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA17260 for ; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 05:54:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from john@unt.edu) Received: from leonardo.cascss.unt.edu (leonardo.cascss.unt.edu [129.120.32.203]) by Mercury.unix.acs.cc.unt.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA29705; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:53:31 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from john@localhost) by leonardo.cascss.unt.edu (8.8.8/8.6.9) id HAA18461; Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:52:15 -0500 (CDT) From: john Message-Id: <199807291252.HAA18461@leonardo.cascss.unt.edu> Subject: Re: date on schg files changing, how? In-Reply-To: <199807282100.WAA01034@indigo.ie> from Niall Smart at "Jul 28, 98 10:00:18 pm" To: rotel@indigo.ie Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 07:52:15 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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