message file create times

[Phil Chambers]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:55:09 -0800 (PST) Andrew Morgan <morgan at orst.edu> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Phil Chambers wrote:
> 
> > I asked this question along with others some time ago and this part was never
> > answered.  can anyone tell me what goes through inboxes and folders re-setting the
> > create times?
> >
> > If I look at an individual user's filespace I see the create times of all the
> > message files and cyrus.xxx files set to the same time, usually some time in the
> > middle of the night.  I can't see a connection with the event times in cyrus.config.
> >
> > I would be pleased to have an explanation.
> 
> Are you talking about the ctime or the mtime of the files?  You should
> know that there is no such thing as "create" time.  From the stat(2) man
> page:
> 

It is the ctime that I am referring to.  The mtimes correspond, as I would expect, 
to the delivery/received times of the messages.  The ctimes are more recent than the 
ctimes, except for very new messages.

The only thing I can think of now is our backup system.  That runs over night and 
will be copying files over the network to a tape storage system.  I will enquire of 
the person who manages that system.

Phil.
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Phil Chambers (postmaster at exeter.ac.uk)
University of Exeter