Wire tripped

[Bill Perkins]

Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 22:21, Bill Perkins wrote:
> 
>>jludwig wrote:
>>
>>>On Thursday 06 October 2005 08:58, Scot L. Harris wrote:
>>>
> 
> 
>>>>Prelink is used to modify ELF shared libraries and ELF dynamiclly linked
>>>>binaries to reduce startup time.  Check out the man page for prelink to
>>>>get more details.
>>>>
>>>>The changes you describe are consistent with prelink.
>>
>>Yes- after perusing the man page, that makes some sense. However, where 
>>did prelink get triggered from? I sure didn't run it.
>>
> 
> 
> Depends on how you run the system.  By default there should be a cron
> job in /etc/cron.daily called prelink.  If your system runs 24x7 it
> should run at least once a day.  
> 

Interesting. /var/log/prelink.log doesn't leave any timestamps; 
apparently, it's part of the base package, but for some reason, it 
hasn't made itself apparent (at least to tripwire) until now. For the 
most part, the system runs 24/7, with the occasional reboot into 
Slackware for an hour or two; had this system operating since beginning 
of September. Fedora has some interesting quirks, to say the least! 
Still easier to deal with than Microsoft :)

>>>You could try something like;
>>>-->  rpm -vV -a > /root/rpm_verify 
>>>Then try less the file /root/rpm_verify.
>>
>>Cool! I've had it running for a few hours now (this is a 1GHz PIII of 
>>some sort, with 256M RAM, so it's not the fastest processor on the 
>>block), and the output looks reasonable so far. I've just switched to 
>>FC4 from Slackware, and I don't know all the ins and outs of rpm, yum, 
>>and up2date, so even though I've been using Linux for 10 years now, I'm 
>>still on a learning curve (which is why I jumped to Linux in the first 
>>place). Thanks for all the help, I'll let you know what I find.
> 
> 
> It is a constant learning curve, always new things to learn.  And
> usually just when you get a handle on one service it gets changed.  :) 

Sounds like Microsoft ;)


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