Hi Scott, Scott Bonds wrote on Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 09:38:10AM -0700:
> My daily insecurity email on one of my boxes says this: > > Block device changes: > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 1 Aug 16 17:44:40 2014 /dev/wd0b > brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 1 Sep 8 18:43:56 2014 /dev/wd0b > > On all my other (openbsd) boxes, the swap partition has the same date as > all the other block devices. And all the other devices on *this* box > have the same timestamp of August 16. After this insecurity report, I > ran a script that eats up memory and started to use swap space and I > verified that at least in that case, the swap device timestamp didn't > change...so it would seem that using swap wouldn't lead to the timestamp > change in my daily insecurity report. > > Does anyone know why the date would change on a swap device like this? One obvious possibility would be that maybe somebody ran mknod(1) or touch(1) on the file /dev/wd0b. Yours, Ingo
