From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 19 11: 6:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.burlco.lib.nj.us (mail.burlco.lib.nj.us [151.204.38.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57C58156C9 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 11:06:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jquincy@mail.burlco.lib.nj.us) Received: from localhost (jquincy@localhost) by mail.burlco.lib.nj.us (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA14704 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:06:16 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:06:16 -0500 (EST) From: John Quincy To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: backup w/o touching files' last-accessed times Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm using "dump" to backup users' e-mail nightly. Unfortunately this changes the last-accessed time of their INBOX so that their shell only reports "You have mail" instead of "You have new mail" when they log in. (Say they receive new mail at 2:55a and the backup is done at 3:00a. The last-accessed time is greater than the last-modified time, so the shell assumes the user has already read his latest mail.) Surely I'm not the only dope who's wondered about this. How do you do a backup without munging the last-accessed time on files? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message