There is a program called "prelink" that works with the program loader to rewrite the symbol tables in libraries and executables for faster loading. It is turned on by default in Red Hat derived systems like Scientific Linux.
Yikes! I do disk-to-disk backups with dirvish/rsync (I like dirvish so much, I host www.dirvish.org ;-) ) and have started doing file integrity monitoring with osiris. It appears that "prelink" changes the binaries and libaries while leaving ctime/mtime at previous values. Just like a virus does, so prelink sets off all sorts of alarms. Sorry, I would rather have slow, stable and safe instead of fast and fragile, so bye-bye prelink . I plan to remove /etc/cron.daily/prelink, revert my binaries and libraries with "prelink -au", then comment out all the "-l" lines in /etc/prelink.conf so that the loader doesn't attempt to do it. Then I will rebuild my backups, and reinitialize osiris. Any flaws in my thinking? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs
