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 > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >