I have been seeing a lot of these messages: * Some file in '/etc/{conf.d,init.d}' have Modification time in the future!
I post here a list of those files, as I contemplate what to do about this: # ls -lrt /etc/conf.d shows the following with 2020 dates: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318 Dec 30 2020 net -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 217 Dec 30 2020 local.stop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 117 Dec 30 2020 local.start -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 709 Dec 30 2020 keymaps -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83 Dec 30 2020 hostname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 415 Dec 30 2020 env_whitelist -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 561 Dec 30 2020 domainname -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 722 Dec 30 2020 consolefont -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 609 Dec 30 2020 clock -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 254 Dec 30 2020 bootmisc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27908 Dec 30 2020 net.example -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6577 Dec 30 2020 rc # ls -lrt /etc/init.d | grep 2020 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 915 Dec 30 2020 urandom -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 215 Dec 30 2020 shutdown.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Dec 30 2020 runscript.sh -> ../../sbin/runscript.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 276 Dec 30 2020 rmnologin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 221 Dec 30 2020 reboot.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 670 Dec 30 2020 numlock -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3055 Dec 30 2020 netmount lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 30 2020 net.eth0 -> net.lo -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2956 Dec 30 2020 modules -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 620 Dec 30 2020 local -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1859 Dec 30 2020 keymaps -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1047 Dec 30 2020 hostname -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5110 Dec 30 2020 halt.sh lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Dec 30 2020 functions.sh -> ../../sbin/functions.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1526 Dec 30 2020 domainname lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Dec 30 2020 depscan.sh -> ../../sbin/depscan.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1414 Dec 30 2020 consolefont -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3022 Dec 30 2020 checkroot -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1205 Dec 30 2020 checkfs -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3637 Dec 30 2020 bootmisc -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 515 Dec 30 2020 cupsd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2589 Dec 30 2020 clock -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 26683 Dec 30 2020 net.lo -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1319 Dec 30 2020 localmount If I touch these as current, will it hurt anything? Alan Davis -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list