ELF Binary Stripper?

Ben Stringer ben at burbong.com
Wed Oct 12 01:20:01 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 18:58 -0400, Chris Spencer wrote:
> I have an ELF binary with a zip file attached and something in Fedora is 
> breaking it by stripping the zip file on a daily basis. Could a cron 
> process be responsible?

Probably "prelink".

Have a look in /etc/cron.daily. My FC3 installation calls prelink daily.
prelink modifies ELF binaries to speed up startup time.

Cheers, Ben





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