[Ma-linux] Re: [Novalug] weekly cron job

[Jay Hart]

> On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Jay Hart wrote:
>
>> find -type f -atime +12 | xargs ls -l
>>
>> find -type f -mtime +12 | xargs ls -l
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>> I believe I should run the mtime option as opposed to the atime option, but
>> I'm wondering if this will do for me what I want.
>
> Remember, each file has 3 timestamps associated with it, atime, mtime and
> ctime. The atime records when the file was last accessed and is probably
> the most frequently updated timestamp (hence the 'noatime' mount option
> available with some file systems.) mtime is when the file's contents where
> last modified. ctime is when the inode was last modified.
>
> Renaming a file changes the ctime but not the atime or mtime.
> Doing a head/tail on a file changes the atime but not mtime or ctime.
> Editing a file but not saving it changes the atime but not mtime or ctime.
> Saving your edit changes the atime and mtime but not ctime.
>

These files (in the form of an email) are moved to a different directory upon
receipt for storage until sa-learn scans them (once a week).

They are not edited, or copied, renamed, moved, etc.  So, I'm thinking mtime
is the one I want.

In case I miss a cycle, I think I will dump up the time from 12 to 15 days.

Jay

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> --Jeff
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