[Aide] Everything "in future" :)

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Hello Bernd,

We see this every then and when. You won't believe how often big name
companies distribute big money applications on CD's which have been
created on systems with wrong clocks. When our admins then install these
applications from CD, they often do have these timestamps in the future.
I've also seen installations which explicitly set the version of the
software as the timestamp of the file...

You can check the various timestamps of files with ls -lc | ls -lu | ls -l
and touch also has switches to explicitly change a certain type of the
timestamp.

Cheers,

Kurt


On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 03:28:43PM +0200, Bernd Roehling wrote:
> 
> I installed a distribution called "IPCop"[1] from a CD.
> I downloaded aide-0.10 from sourceforge, compiled it on another
> linux-system and copy it to the IPCop. Then I run "aide --init"
> and got the following messages for _every_* file:
> * atime in future
> * mtime in future
> 
> BIOS clock and system clock are ok. aide.conf based on the example from
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Erammer/aide/manual.html
>