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<<On Sun, 25 Jan 2015 11:29:46 +0100, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des=
.no> said:

> I assume that you're using official packages and don't have a locally=

> compiled Python interpreter or anything like that?

We build our own package repositories.

> Could you perhaps turn on auditing in order to find out what's touchi=
ng
> these files?

Maybe.  It will probably take a while.  My a priori guess, knowing
that we don't directly use any python programs is that it's either
some Nagios plugin or some Munin plugin (there are a few that are
written in python) that's actually causing the files to get updated.
There's nothing else that should be running as root on these systems.
If I get a moment, I can check which plugins meet those criteria and
try disabling them.

-GAWollman