Why would ctime on a file change?

From: Sheila Hollenbaugh <shollen_at_valhalla.cs.wright.edu>
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 08:23:32 -0400

We are running tripwire on several of our systems. This morning we received a
report indicating that st_ctime had changed on a file. This equates to the
ctime reported by "find" (change in inode number) and when I checked, I found
that the file was flagged when I ran "find . -ctime -1" on the directory. The
file passed all of the other checksum tests. In looking further, other files
and directories which should have been stable also are flagged with find -ctime
-1. Is there a logical explanation for this?

--SHeila


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