> On 03 Sep 2014, at 02:05 , Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk> wrote: > >> On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 08:23:02 -0600 >> LuKreme wrote: >> >>> if test -d "$J_PATH"; then >>> MYFIND=`find $J_PATH/ -type f -mtime -7|grep -v dovecot` > > On 30.08.14 22:32, RW wrote: >> mtime may not be the best choice. Ideally what you want is the the time >> since the spam was moved to Junk, rather than the time since it was >> delivered. > > ctime should provide this information - it's changed when sa file is moved. > For example courier-imap uses ctime ifnormation for deleting old mail from > trash and spam (and whatever you configure to TRASH variable.
I agree that it should. However, I’ve had very poor luck with -ctime. For example, I have a command O run to delete files in my ~/tmp that are more than 30 days old. If I use -ctime, none of the files are ever deleted, while if I use -mtime, everything works as expected. > Note that something that manipulates file status can break this feature, > e.g. a backup system that reads files and resets atime back will cause > resetting the ctime. Setting it _not_ to reset atime (nobody uses atime > nowadays) should fix the problem. That may be what is happening then, since the system is backed up with rsnapshot. -- Personal isn't the same as important
