Ok...based on the several responses I've already received I can tell 
     how off base I was in forming my original question.  Let me try again.
     
     Basic question: how to determine if a file has been read-accessed 
     within a certain period of time.
     
     Overall goal: I have lots of pop email accounts setup and some people 
     have not read their email in months.  I want to better manage these 
     accounts and thought by looking at the last-read date I could tell who 
     was reading their mail and who was not.  I guess a better way of 
     looking at this problem would be:  Are there any email account 
     management routines/scripts/shareware/whatever which would not only 
     tell me of inactive accounts but would do such things as cleanup & 
     archive unread messages older than say 30 days, etc.?
     
     And Duh...in my original posting I was in error looking at the ls -l 
     output rather than the ls -ul output (last modification -v- last 
     access time.) Fingers get too fast and the brain disengages. Sorry for 
     the confusion on my part.
     
     Larry
Received on Mon Aug 03 1998 - 19:30:15 NZST