[ILUG] puzzle of the day: RHEL has files seemingly undoing edits

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Brendan Kehoe wrote:

>    Anyway, I'm seeing files which I edit and change regressing back,
>    all by themselves to previous versions of the file.
>    Thus I edit the file, save, close, and do anything (md5sum, copy,
>    wc, whatever) with the file, and it works fine.
>    Then I come back in 20 minutes, and again try to use the file (run
>    md5sum, whatever) and it fails,
>    I check why and the file I had just updated is back to its original
>    file!!

Does the datestamp change?  Does it go forward or backward?

Gavin