From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 05:49:51 EDT
There are occasions when atime would be more useful - in theory! We've got
it in several clean-up scripts, I believe.
The sort of situation I've faced in the past is where a user creates a
temporary file containing, say, pricing information. They then refer to
that until the price changes. One can try to make it clear that files in
certain places -will_ be deleted automatically, but some users tend to think
that if it's there today, it'll be there tomorrow.
Simon Green
Altria ITSC Europe Ltd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jef Lee [mailto:jef.lee@ITVISION.COM.AU]
> Sent: 04 August 2003 01:51
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Problem with find -atime not finding files!
>
>
> Simon,
>
> I agree with Svend. I too used atime and got no where. When
> I changed to
> mtime, it worked as I expected. On reflection, it's what I
> wanted - to find
> files that had changed.
>
> Jef...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jarzombek, Svend [mailto:Svend.Jarzombek@ALCOA.COM]
> Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 7:03 PM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Problem with find -atime not finding files!
>
>
> Simon,
>
> I met the same problem some time ago. I finally decided to
> use "-mtime".
>
> On our RS6k (AIX4.3.3) the "backup" command changes the last
> accessed time.
> I just checked with "ls -lu".
>
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