Please be careful with respect to *NIX file timestamps –
- If, the “noatime” mount option then, the timestamp related to “Time Of Day last accessed
” will not be written …
> LANG=C stat /etc/sysctl.d/70-yast.conf
File: /etc/sysctl.d/70-yast.conf
Size: 109 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file
Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 4064905 Links: 1
Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)
Access: 2021-07-14 15:34:27.359950528 +0200
Modify: 2021-07-14 15:34:04.195950844 +0200
Change: 2021-07-14 15:34:04.195950844 +0200
Birth: 2020-08-18 15:20:44.268000052 +0200
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The only indication of when the file was last read, are the timestamps related to the “systemd-sysctl.service” …