Re: Why do all of the files in /etc get changed every oncein a while?
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
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On 09Mar2009 16:27, Christopher L. Barnard <[email protected]> wrote: | No system updates have been done, but full backups correspond to the | tripwire reports. But why would full backups change the timestamp of | all of the files in /etc but not alter any others? Is it modification time (mtime) or the access time (atime) or the change-to-inode time (ctime)? If it is the mtime, something is odd. The others might easily be changed by backup or integrity software (eg tripwire itself). Do your backups only back up specific parts of the filesystem? Likewise tripwire? -- Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ It is not true that life is one damn thing after another -- it's one damn thing over and over. - Edna St. Vincent Millay