/etc/prelink.cache

["Dave Burns" <tburns hawaii edu>]

I have aide, a file integrity monitor, watching the files on one of my
boxes. It recently reported a change to /etc/prelink.cache.

I am tempted to think that this file, being a cache, will tend to
change without any reason obvious to me.

And so it seems to me that I will get lots of false alarms and the
only small amount of good it might accomplish is that if I ever have a
real intrusion using that file it will provide a small but
inconclusive clue.

So I am tempted to reconfigure aide to ignore that file. Is this a bad
idea? Are changes to this file more predictable than I am supposing?

Thanks,
Dave