[rhn-users] Re: Why do all of the files in /etc get changedevery oncein a while?

[scott fletcher (BITS)]

I would use the stat command on a file in /etc/ and another in somewhere
like bin and see if the timestamps match ie

stat <filename> 

That way you can see if the backup is effecting all files and tripwire
is only taking notice of some , I think some software uses the change
timestamp to amrk when the last full backup was done.

-----Original Message-----
From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Aaron Bliss
Sent: 10 March 2009 01:05
To: 'Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)'
Subject: RE: [rhn-users] Re: Why do all of the files in /etc get
changedevery oncein a while?

Definitely sounds odd...we use Netbackup for backups and ossec for,
among other things, to ensure file system integrity and have not
observed what you are seeing...

Aaron

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Cameron Simpson
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 7:41 PM
To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com)
Subject: [rhn-users] Re: Why do all of the files in /etc get changed
every oncein a while?

On 09Mar2009 16:27, Christopher L. Barnard <cbarnard at rush.edu> 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?
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