What would change the file date on an executable in hp-ux?

[Dennis Lee_2]

What would change the file date on an executable in hp-ux?
1) Recompile

what are the other ways of changing the file date?

-Dennis

[Rita C Workman]

Could be something as simple as someone doing a
'touch' on the file....

Rita

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Dennis:

In additon to 'touch'ing the file, if you copy (cp) it and then copy it back to itself without using the '-p' option of 'cp', the modification timestamp will change.

...JRF...

[Dennis Lee_2]

thanks for the info on cp.
ok...but I have copied a file from one volume to another without the modify date changing...what other ways of "touching" the file are there? The file is executed by multiple users many times a day and I am concerned that it has been modified from the baseline. The file has been exactly the same date time stamp for a year and recently it has changed to a later date.

-Dennis

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA · Accepted solution]

Hi Dennis

1. Recompile.
2. Touch.
3. Copy.
4. COpying from another media .

Manoj Srivastava

[Rita C Workman]

If a user has the permissions to 'w' than the user could simple do the command:
touch
...or as was mentioned cp..

But let's say the executable is SQL...and the user has SQL privileges, then they could go in and view...and make changes and save the changes there as well.
Check your file permissions...and....if it's SQL based, check the rights you've granted and to whom.

Just a thought,
Rita

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Dennis:

I'll bet someone cd'ed to the wrong directory and did a make which would do all the things listed above or a relink would have done it.

Clay

[Bill Hassell]

Restore a copy of the executable to another directory and use sum to test it. If the values are different than replace the executable with the old version. The permission and ownership of the DIRECTORY as well as the file itself determine who can modify the program file. Are there too many user that know the root password?

[Wodisch]

Hello Dennis,

could be someone has just "relinked" your code
files? This happens fairly often with Oracle
and Baan IV code files...

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch