Sean Carmody wrote:
>
> I regularly get the following message in my tripwire reports:
>
> Modified:
> "/usr/lib/perl5/man/whatis"
>
> I can't imaging it's serious as I get it even on a machine
> that generally doesn't connect to the outside world. Does
> anyone know why this file would be changing of its own accord?
whatis files are part of the man page system...
basically it sets up a database of keywords so that searching man pages
is more efficient...
i think if you check your crontab, it should be updated each night,
hence the warning from tripwire...
later
marty
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