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Date:      Tue, 04 Jan 2000 00:12:06 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Ben WIlliams <williamsl@Home.Com>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Fwd: core security check output 
Message-ID:  <200001040812.AAA29276@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jan 2000 02:20:02 EST." <1597.000104@Home.Com> 

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>   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.

   There is a rare kernel bug that sometimes results in the system thinking
that a page has been modified when it has not. The only way you can be certain
is to cksum the installed version with the original that it was built from.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com
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