On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:33:11AM +0200, Tobias Weisserth wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have a weird problem on a i386 box with OpenBSD 3.8. Im running the  
> patch branch with the AIDE package installed.
> 
> AIDE keeps reporting a change in the SHA1 checksum of /etc/motd. Even  
> after I run a "aide --update" and use the updated database for future  
> checks the checksum keeps changing. I didn't notice such a behavior  
> in the past. I protect my AIDE database by putting it into an  
> encrypted filesystem, that I only mount writable when I update the  
> database.
> 
> Any idea what is happening? The content of the file seems to be  
> unchanged when I look at it.

did you read the man page ?  

$ man motd
$ grep motd /etc/rc



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Mathieu Sauve-Frankel

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