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Subject: Re: web-serving does not update a file's atime?
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Nathan Kinkade wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:35:45AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>I tried to use stat(1) to see the last time a file was downloaded
>>through Apache.
>>
>>To my surprise, all three dates displayed by stat are long ago, even
>>though the web-server's log is showing downloads from a just a few
>>hours back.
>>
>>The file-system used to be mounted noatime, but I turned that option
>>off some time ago. If I read one of those files (with head(1) or
>>file(1), for example), the atime is updated. But if Apache serves it
>>out -- it is not... There is no caching in Apache either.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Is this all running on your local machine?  If not, is it possible that
>there is a proxy server between you and the host running Apache?
>Perhaps a transparent proxy?
>  
>
There are not other servers and no proxies. The locally running apache logs
successful requests for the files, but their atimes are not updated.

Just checked -- the file was last downloaded 13 minutes ago, but  all of
the three time-stamps (according to stat(1)) point to many hours back...

Thanks!

    -mi