[tech] atime broken with morwong's NFS

[Alastair Irvine]

On Sat, 27 March, 2004 at 06:23:00PM +0800, Matt Johnston wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Since a few months ago, morwong's file access-times for NFS mounts
> haven't been updating, which stuffs up mail clients etc. It seems to be a
[snip] 
> Has anyone seen this before, or got suggestions on sorting it out? If
> people could read mail happily on mussel, it'd take a nice bit of load off
> from morwong.

This seems to be the same problem that I have with my UCC web site.  A
script tells me if a file* in my public-html directory had been updated (by
procmail) more recently than it has been accessed.  For many months (maybe
up to a year?) the atime has not changed whenever I access the file via HTTP.

* This file is my spam list.  I use procmail and a script to merge the URLs
  from the SpamCop "browse to this URL to report this spam" messages into
  the list.  The first level (forwarding spam to my spamcop.net reporting
  address) is also handled through procmail.  Because SpamAssassin user
  configs are turned off (therefore no whitelisting, custom scoring or
  Bayesian filtering is done) I do manual whitelisting and homebrew spam
  tests with procmail.

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... File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)
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