[RndTbl] How to modify file times?

[Sean Walberg]

touch -m lets you change the mtime...

touch -m -t 06010000 foo

Sean

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:00 PM, John Lange <john at johnlange.ca> wrote:

> I love SUSE but I can't stand the way it implements cron.
>
> Instead of using the usual /etc/crontab file to schedule cron.daily,
> weekly etc, it creates files in /var/spool/cron/lastrun and uses the
> file dates to schedule it's next run.
>
> And it's completely arbitrary as to when things run. If you create
> something in cron.weekly, it will execute it immediately and then
> continue to execute it at that same time every week.
>
> That doesn't sound so bad until you realize it uses the change
> timestamp, not the modify or access timestamp.
>
> And I'll give you one guess which timestamp you can't manually override
> with touch? You guessed it, it's the change timestamp.
>
> So if you want to change your scripts so that they run next Sunday at
> 4am, you have to change your system clock back to last Sunday and
> "touch" the files.
>
> I'm really hoping someone has a better solution than this...
>
> --
> John Lange
> www.johnlange.ca
>
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