Subject: Re: Why is X11 always "touched" for a dump?
To: Bryan P <u12@terran.org>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/27/2003 12:20:18
Bryan P <u12@terran.org> writes:
> I've noticed that when using dump on a 1.6.1_STABLE system, regardless of
> the level I dump on /usr, the X11R6 tree is always considered "recently
> modified" - even though I _know_ it hasn't changed since the last dump.
> This makes me think something is recursing through that tree and updating
> the mtime of all the files (probably a daily/weekly/monthly script).

Not to my knowledge. None of our standard scripts do such a thing.

Have you tried using ls to see if the files have really been updated,
and if so when?

.pm