From owner-freebsd-security Sat Nov 23 09:31:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA03636 for security-outgoing; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:31:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA03628 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 09:31:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA18132 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 18:31:14 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id SAA02567 for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 18:30:46 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.2/keltia-uucp-2.9) id QAA25241; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 16:17:03 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 16:17:02 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setuid diff in date/time.. Worry? References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2686 In-Reply-To: ; from Operator ROOT on Nov 23, 1996 01:53:59 -0500 Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Operator ROOT: > I was looking through my daily run and noticed that the date and time on > a file had changed. It appears to be identical and I cannot think what > would have caused the date to change.. Should I worry? I don't think so, especially if the MD5 checksum doesn't change. There was a bug in the VM of 2.1.0 that would cause the kernel to update the date even if the page was not written. You may want to reinstall the binary from the live file system CD though. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #28: Sun Nov 10 13:37:41 MET 1996