tripwire detected that the date of two binaries, bash and nano, changed. I have looked into the logs and between the two runs of tripwire, the machine didn't rebooted or had new software instaled.
As I don't remeber a good reason for a system file change is date, I am asking for your experience. Follow the details from tripwire Modified object name: /bin/bash Property: Expected Observed ------------- ----------- ----------- Object Type Regular File Regular File Device Number 770 770 Inode Number 225312 225312 Mode -rwxr-xr-x -rwxr-xr-x Num Links 1 1 UID root (0) root (0) GID root (0) root (0) Size 625228 625228 * Modify Time Sun Dec 19 16:53:48 2004 Fri Apr 15 19:55:50 2005 Blocks 1232 1232 CRC32 B9RcTq B9RcTq MD5 Bh6LBZqhbgAopvGe9cl5ox Bh6LBZqhbgAopvGe9cl5ox Modified object name: /bin/nano Property: Expected Observed ------------- ----------- ----------- Object Type Regular File Regular File Device Number 770 770 Inode Number 224027 224027 Mode -rwxr-xr-x -rwxr-xr-x Num Links 1 1 UID root (0) root (0) GID root (0) root (0) Size 113944 113944 * Modify Time Sat Apr 9 18:35:19 2005 Wed Mar 24 10:38:56 2004 Blocks 232 232 CRC32 DivtL+ DivtL+ MD5 AuKDD6ZtZ+I58sDviYUIhM AuKDD6ZtZ+I58sDviYUIhM Jose Calhariz -- Ficar desempregado é padecer no paraíso --Angelo Vilano
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