From: Irene A. Shilikhina (irene@alpha.iae.nsk.su)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 00:10:46 EST
No replies [sigh...] Another case to say out a pity that no more on the
list a good Dr. File System's Home for Wayward Inodes (Alan Rollow's alias).
My original question follows under the signature.
Thanks
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Irene A. Shilikhina wrote:
>
> I suddenly discovered that old directories (older than 5 days) in
> /var/adm/syslog.dated remained where they were. I made sure that the
> crontab was submitted and it contained an appropriate line:
>
> 40 4 * * * find /var/adm/syslog.dated -depth -type d -ctime +5 -exec rm
> -rf {} \;
>
> Then I ran 'find /var/adm/syslog.dated -type d -ctime +5' by hand and,
> much to my surprise, the output was empty. But 'mtime' instead of 'ctime'
> gave what I expected. At this point it occured to me that this server had
> experienced crash (with panic 'kernel memory fault'). It happened 9 days
> ago.
>
> I removed them anyhow, and 'find' with -ctime +1, +2, +3 , +4 gives the
> right result.
>
> Is it possible that fsck after the crash 'cured' these directories so that
> ctime in their inodes changed? At boot time my eye had not enough time to
> catch all the messages on the screen.
>
> Thanks,
> Irene
>
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> * Irene A. Shilikhina e-mail: irene@alpha.iae.nsk.su *
> * System administrator, *
> * Institute of Automation & Electrometry, *
> * Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, *
> * Novosibirsk, Russia *
> * http://www.iae.nsk.su/~irene *
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> * The road to hell is paved with good intentions. *
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