On Friday 11 August 2006 12:28, Romanowski, John (OFT) wrote:
>Anyone know why the /tmp directory's time-stamp changes so frequently
>and is only a few minutes old? /tmp is another file system on the
>server.
>drwxrwxrwt 32 root root 4096 Aug 11 12:16 tmp
Because every time a file is created or removed from /tmp, its timestamp gets
updated to indicate that the directory has been modified. The fact that a
directory's modification time has changed tells you that the write activity
you are trying to track down is occurring in those directories.
- MacK.
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Edmund R. MacKenty
Software Architect
Rocket Software, Inc.
Newton, MA USA
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