Am 11. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Bill Warner so:

> While doing some looking around on some of our production servers I was
> noticing that all files are accessed pretty much every day.  I know that
> many of the files are not used by anybody,  Does tar or rsync (both used
> in parts of backups) moddify the atime?  what else might modify the
> atime on a standard setup.  perhaps updatedb?  Is there any way to get
> system programs to not change the atime whenever they are just
> catologing or backing up files?

Some utils can reset atime. I think they have to be run as root to do so.

ciao,

der.hans
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