Meikel,
Aside from the stupid way:
create a file "org_name"
copy it to new_name
rm org_name
mv new_name org_name
I don't know of a way to change inode
and keep md5 the same.
Does anyone know of a way?
This would be the perfect question for this forum.
GKH
> Hi folks,
>
> on CentOS 6.5 I run tripwire software which verifies data integrity. My
> system is automatically updated by yum (as far as I understand the
> /etc/cron.daily/0yum.cron is responsible for the regular system
> updates). After a system update I'm then notified by tripwire about the
> changes on the file system.
>
> By browsing those tripwire reports I found that there are files which
> did not change at all (i.e. the MD5 hash is the same as before) but the
> inode changed. I do not understand what yum did to the file that
> resulted in an inode change, especially I'm wondering how the inode can
> change although there was no modification on the file at all.
>
> Thanks in advance for any clarification.
>
> Find below an excerpt from the tripwire log (for /etc/nsswitch.conf)
> which shows that only inode changed.
>
> Regards,
>
> Meikel
>
>
>
>
> Excerpt from tripwire report:
>
> Modified object name: /etc/nsswitch.conf
>
> Property: Expected Observed
> ------------- ----------- -----------
> Object Type Regular File Regular File
> Device Number 64770 64770
> * Inode Number 393292 393686
> Mode -rw-r--r-- -rw-r--r--
> Num Links 1 1
> UID root (0) root (0)
> GID root (0) root (0)
> Size 1688 1688
> Modify Time Tue 04 May 2010 09:22:21 PM CEST
> Tue 04 May 2010 09:22:21 PM CEST
> Blocks 8 8
> CRC32 DjDI7W DjDI7W
> MD5 ANYAnN/RJkbSUehjA7wMSM ANYAnN/RJkbSUehjA7wMSM
>
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