"Mansur, Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If we disable the last access time on the machine, will it mess up any applications?
> I always thought the atime was kind of useless but I don't know if some applications
>use it in an esoteric way.
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I would encourage people to not mess around with this option.
I'm somewhat biased in this area -- I have a couple of scripts that
depend on the atime field. For example:
o I have some glue scripts that I use in conjunction with xbiff
that depend on atime to tell me when I have email.
o I wrote another script a long time ago that figured out, for a
given Java application, what the absolute minimum subset of files
in my full build area needed to be packaged up for a software
release.
o I've sometimes used the atime field to determine that a given
user on a closed system wasn't accessing certain files.
Configuring a system to not update the atime field, to me, violates my
"eliminate surprises" rule.
--kevin
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