Thanks to Spider Boardman, Kris Smith and Joseph Senulis for speedy replies.
I should have run sweep with --no-reset-atime. However, since I didn't,
and my ls happens to be aliased to ls -cF, I see the new atimes. Root does
not use the same aliases file as general users, and so still sees the
original times. The problem is temporarily curable by getting all users to
type unalias ls whenever they log in. The permanent solution is to remove
ls -cF from the aliases file (which I don't mind doing as I couldn't see
the advantage of it anyway).
Here's the bit from the sweep manual that I didn't spot:
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The following options may be prefixed with 'no-' to invert their meaning
(for example, '--no-reset-atime' is the inverse of '--reset-atime'. [*]
indicates the option is the default:
--reset-atime [*] : Reset file access time after SWEEPing
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Cheers
Derek
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Received on Thu Apr 15 2004 - 15:49:23 NZST