From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 4 1:51:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C1014DBA for ; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 01:51:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from williamsl@Home.Com) Received: from [192.168.1.10] ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <20000104095142.WDS21903.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@[24.4.115.31]>; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 01:51:42 -0800 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 04:51:41 -0500 From: Ben WIlliams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.34a) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Ben WIlliams X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <7202.000104@Home.Com> To: FreeBSD questions Cc: David Greenman Subject: Re[2]: Fwd: core security check output In-reply-To: <200001040812.AAA29276@implode.root.com> References: <200001040812.AAA29276@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tuesday, January 04, 2000 Rare, eh? This is actually the second time this has happened on this box. Last time was 5 days prior but I've searched my 'security check' archives for this box and don't see any others in the past six months. What triggers this bug? Tuesday, January 04, 2000, 3:12:06 AM, you wrote: >> Below is a copy of the security check output from one of the >>machines I remotely administer. What would cause the timestamp on >>/usr/bin/uptime & /usr/bin/w to change on a 2.2.5-RELEASE machine? The >>file sizes haven't changed and they both still do what I expect them >>to do. DG> There is a rare kernel bug that sometimes results in the system thinking DG> that a page has been modified when it has not. The only way you can be certain DG> is to cksum the installed version with the original that it was built from. DG> -DG DG> David Greenman DG> Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org DG> Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com DG> Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message