diff --git a/lustre/tests/runtests b/lustre/tests/runtests
index d49738b376e163ab2c69bbbaadfb431272b26728..89e23d8ccd573646769dc8164b8e15c221026f91 100755
--- a/lustre/tests/runtests
+++ b/lustre/tests/runtests
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ log() {
 
 
 ERROR=
-SRC=/etc
+SRC="/etc /bin"
 [ "$COUNT" ] || COUNT=1000
 
 [ "$MCREATE" ] || MCREATE=mcreate
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ mkdir $DST || fail "can't mkdir $DST" 10
 
 # ok, that hopefully worked, so let's do a little more, with files that
 # haven't changed in the last day (hopefully they don't change during test)
-FILES=`find $SRC -type f -mtime +1 -ctime +1 | head -n $COUNT`
+FILES=`find $SRC -type f -mtime +1 | head -n $COUNT`
 [ -z "$FILES" ] && fail "No unchanged files - is $SRC a new dir?"
 
 log "copying files from $SRC to $DST$SRC at `date`"