tripwire reports major changes -- gcc or selinux or ...

[Daniel J Walsh]

Michael Schwendt wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:34:16 -0700, Marcin Struzak wrote:
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>>I am running FC3 with tripwire-2.3.1-20.fdr.1.1 (RPM), and all of a sudden, after months of successful "quite" or almost quiet bahvior, my nightly check reports over 6500 changes.  This is very unusual for an "overnight" situation, and so I am trying to figure out what caused it.  
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>Prelinking can result in such changes (verify some key files with "rpm -V"
>or even "rpm -Va"). But first of all, you should update your tripwire
>package to FC3's. It's tripwire-2.3.1-21 in Fedora Extras.  Your one is
>for FC1.
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Are you seeing AVC messages in your log files?  /var/log/messages and/or 
/var/log/audit/audit.log

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