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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers File access time does not change on some files Post 302505625 by Corona688 on Thursday 17th of March 2011 12:37:01 PM
Old 03-17-2011
Could you ls -ld the directories the files reside in? I noticed one of them was named "tmp" and am wondering if it had any weird permissions like the sticky bit set on it.

I wouldn't expect that to prevent atimes from working, but that's the only obvious difference I see between the two locations.

ext4 also has some "extended" attributes you can set on files, try lsattr filename to see if anything weird got put on them.
Last edited by Corona688; 03-17-2011 at 01:43 PM..
 

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lsattr

LSATTR(1)						      General Commands Manual							 LSATTR(1)

NAME

       lsattr - list file attributes on a Linux second extended file system

SYNOPSIS

       lsattr [ -RVadlpv ] [ files...  ]

DESCRIPTION

       lsattr lists the file attributes on a second extended file system.  See chattr(1) for a description of the attributes and what they mean.

OPTIONS

       -R     Recursively list attributes of directories and their contents.

       -V     Display the program version.

       -a     List all files in directories, including files that start with `.'.

       -d     List directories like other files, rather than listing their contents.

       -l     Print the options using long names instead of single character abbreviations.

       -p     List the file's project number.

       -v     List the file's version/generation number.

AUTHOR

       lsattr was written by Remy Card <Remy.Card@linux.org>.  It is currently being maintained by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@alum.mit.edu>.

BUGS

       There are none :-).

AVAILABILITY

       lsattr is part of the e2fsprogs package and is available from http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net.

SEE ALSO

       chattr(1)

E2fsprogs version 1.44.1					    March 2018								 LSATTR(1)
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