-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-04-24 at 10:45 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote: ...
BTW Tend to use touch for modifying timestamps (not grep).
You misunderstood me. I don't use grep to modify the timestamps. I use grep for grepping - and as a side effect, as the files are accessed, the timestamps change.
Depending on the backup tool you are using you can retain the original time stamp of the files.
Access means reading, not modifying - there is no point in backing up simply "accessed" files. Or you mean my restore method? I used a simple "copy file", mc, I think. All files got the date the backup was made. Not what I intended, but couldn't help it.
However, I would not deactivate time stamping on the part of the file system holding /var/spool/cron as time stamping is used by the run-cron script to establish when to fire the certain cron scripts.... There may be other application using file time stamping to control activity.
Not the access time. As I said, I have disabled that timestamp about two years ago with no side effects as far as I know. You know that by simply watching a log file, it's access time is continuously modified, creating write activity in the disk? That alone is reason enough to disable that time stamp on a portable. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFGLdpHtTMYHG2NR9URAimQAJwNh5wCZffubMxQ+wARS/HESCelRwCbBtKN qS4zGOc6l+aTsHkgrcUJUMg= =mgB/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org