[Samba] File Creation Dates Question

[Joel Hammer]

I just ran 

for i in `find . -maxdepth 1 -perm 000`
do
touch $i
chmod 777 $i
done

on a directory with 1700 files. It found, touch'ed, and chmod'ed 17 files
with 000 permissions in less than one second on an AMD 267 mh.

find is an executable binary, not some slow perl or bash script.
So, it may not be too great a burden on your cpu to run this find command
every minute.

Give the speed of the find command, is there a reason why you wouldn't just
send the email message every minute, instead of waiting 5 minutes between
messages.

Or, run the find command every five minutes, then the email command.

The inability of samba to automatically change the access times of uploaded
files sounds like a feature, not a bug!

Joel



On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:31:21PM -0800, Mike McMullen wrote:
> Hi Joel,
> 
> 
> > I lost my email from Saturday.  File corruption.
> > 
> > Anyway, if you responded to my suggestion of running a script to solve
> > your file access time problems I didn't see it.
> > 
> > Joel
> > 
> 
> Below is what I sent. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> Hi Joel,
> 
> I had already set dos filetimes=yes. I still see
> the same behavior. As a test I tried copying a
> file from one pc to another pc. The file creation
> timestamp on the copy retains the original file
> creation time.
> 
> Seems like a strange behavior to me. The reason
> I'm a little loathe to run a find every minute is this could
> very soon be up to a thousand files a day or more.
> 
> The group effected the most by this is our scanning and
> indexing folks. They take paper files and TIFF format
> faxes received, break them into individual documents, index
> them according to document type and drop them into directories
> where the assigned loan processor can view them.
> 
> Every 5 minutes a small script runs and using find walks
> the file system to see what's been added. If new documents
> have been found, an HTML email is sent to the loan processor
> and those who have access to that loan, to inform them of
> documents to review.
> 
> One solution would be to have the indexor touch the files
> before they are filed which would give a correct time stamp.
> 
> It just seems there should be a setting to say give me a new
> timestamp, not keep the old timestamp.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Mike
> 
> Mike McMullen
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