Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!percival!qiclab!sopwith!snoopy
From: snoopy@sopwith.UUCP (Snoopy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: atime vs. mtime (was: Re: # signs in inbox)
Message-ID: <78@sopwith.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 88 20:24:13 GMT
References: <gaspar@almsa-1.arpa> <8812011831.aa18248@ICS.UCI.EDU> <8812021334.AA04237@PacRat.NPAC.syr.edu>
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Organization: The Daisy Hill Puppy Farm
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In article <8812021334.AA04237@PacRat.NPAC.syr.edu> jerryp@PACRAT.NPAC.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) writes:

|	45 3 * * * find / -name "[,#]*" -type f -atime +7 -print | xargs rm -f
|
|Once a day (at 3:45 AM) it searches the filesystem for files whose name
|starts with "#" or "," and which haven't been read or written in 7 days.
|It removes those files.

Under UTek, and perhaps other systems, writing to a file does not update
the atime.  This cron entry would remove files written less than 7 days ago
as long as they had not been read for 7 days.
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