Keith Lofstrom - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> So, a request! Could some of you try adding the line:
>
>checksum: 1
>
>To your dirvish master.conf file, so that dirvish runs this way
>over the weekend?
On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 07:46:30PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I added the checksum: 1 directive to some of my dirvish.conf files, and
> it found some files that hadn't been updated in a long time. Among my
...
Thanks, Yoav!
I found out what was causing the vast bulk of my files to checksum
differently - "prelink" on my redhat-derived system.
To quote the first paragraph from the man page for prelink (8):
prelink is a program which modifies ELF shared libraries and
ELF dynamically linked binaries, so that the time which dynamic
linker needs for their relocation at startup significantly
decreases and also due to fewer relocations the run-time memory
consumption decreases too (especially number of unshareable
pages). Such prelinking information is only used if all its
dependant libraries have not changed since prelinking, other-
wise programs are relocated normally.
For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelinking
The program loader is smart enough to deal with corrupted prelink
tables, so my old backups (with different prelink information) are
still valid.
I am going to revert my systems with prelink -ra, then turn it off,
then run another set of "checksum: 1" backups. Yes, prelink speeds
up program loading my systems, but it is not necessary, and it bends
dirvish and it breaks the file integrity monitoring system I am using.
I prefer slow, stable, and secure to fast and fragile.
Keith
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