RE: Making tar not change ctime or atime

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shalehperry@attbi.com>]

On 25-Jul-2002 Mike Dresser wrote:
> I can get tar to not change the atime on a backup with the
> --atime-preserve flag.
> 
> However, that makes it change the ctime, to do that.
> 
> Is there another way around this, to not change either of them?
> 
> Tripwire and aide go nuts when your ctime changes every day.
> 

       The  field  st_ctime  is  changed by writing or by setting
       inode information (i.e., owner, group, link  count,  mode,
       etc.).

so simply doing a chmod will set ctime.


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