Thank you to both,
for your informativ details.
Manfred
This usually happens when a reboot occurs between the security runs.
Kevin
On 1/7/26 01:03, [email protected] wrote:
On 2026-01-06 16:07:36, Manfred wrote:
I have been switched from Free- to OBSD since a few weeks.
I get the daily insecurity output
Running security(8):
Block device changes:
brw------- 1 root wheel 4, 64 Jan 6 14:27:32 2026 /dev/rootdisk
brw------- 1 root wheel 4, 64 Jan 6 15:15:26 2026 /dev/rootdisk
I haven't changed anything conscious at the permissions.
Can you help?
This is an issue with the 7.8 Release.
The problem is in /etc/rc.
rootdisk_nodes() (re)creates those files every boot.
There is no technical issue, only the annoying emails.
You have two options for solving this.
1) Download the fixed /etc/rc script from
https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/src/etc/rc
Look for Revision 1.587 and click download
Use "diff" to compare your download to the
installed /etc/rc, the only differences should
be version line at the top and lines within
the rootdisk_nodes() function.
There is a newer rc version available but it
has changes IMO not needed/wanted for 7.8.
2) Without touching /etc/rc you can add a line
to /etc/rc.local to reset the date on these
files so the daily script doesn't report them
unless they really do change.
touch -r /dev/sd0a /dev/rrootdisk /dev/rootdisk
But as Stuart replied to my original message
"replacing rc might be better than an rc.local addition that you'll
forget about later.."
