I could hear this as either "this file changes too unpredictably, go ahead and ignore it" or "this file only changes when something significant happens, it will be a good signal of bad activity, assuming you keep track of your valid system changes such as yum updates." So let's be very explicit. If I never updated my system or installed new software ever again, would /etc/prelink.cache ever change? Is it a canary or a cuckoo bird? Thanks, Dave On 10/31/07, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 08:51 -1000, Dave Burns wrote: > > idea? Are changes to this file more predictable than I am supposing? > > There are a number of files that will change depending on system > activity and that's one of them. Lots of the files in /var/log will > also change (messages, dmesg, boot.log, wtmp, you get the idea). > > prelink is run once a day via the system crontab and its control file > /etc/cron.daily/prelink. The cache will change if system libraries are > updated via yum/rpm or you build something that adds libraries to the > normal system directories. This is controlled by /etc/prelink.conf. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - > - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - > - - > - Time: Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
