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Date:      Thu, 2 Aug 2001 16:39:42 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What's touching my executables?
Message-ID:  <20010802163942.J451@bohr.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9kc65b$47n$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>; from naddy@mips.inka.de on Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 06:28:59PM %2B0000
References:  <9kc65b$47n$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>

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On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 06:28:59PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de) wrote:
> An increasing number of executables on that box are sporting ever
> newer mtimes.  This appears to have been going on ever since the
> Jul 25 update.  There is no clear pattern which executables are
> touched.  md5 comparisons with previous backup levels (using a Jul 13
> copy of md5) suggest that the executables have not been changed.
> 
> For various reasons I consider it unlikely that I'm dealing with a
> security issue here, although I'm looking into that as well.
> 
> Can anybody think of a technical explanation?

Probably the recent change (IIRC) that someone turned running an
executable into a mtime change.

-- 
wca

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