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alandool
Quartz | Level 8

Greetings,

 

On a Unix server, other than where a file has been read / opened, are there other reasons that the access date (atime) may get updated?  I ask because I have files on our SAS Grid (EG 7.1 / Platform version: 9.4) that show a recent access date although I know the files have not been recently opened / read -- in fact, it has been many months or years since accessed by a SAS process.  

 

Additionally, we are trying to build a file monitoring process based on most recent access date (atime).  Thinking that maybe we should be using last modification date (mtime) instead, if there are issues with using atime.

 

Alan  

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ballardw
Super User

I suggest you ask your IT folks as the files are possibly being touched by other processes that are not SAS related.

 

Or if any SAS hotfixes or upgrades have been applied perhaps the hotfix checked to see if the version of the file is the correct one.

 

Which time to use I would say depends on the purpose of the file monitoring: use or change. You may end up needing both.

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ballardw
Super User

I suggest you ask your IT folks as the files are possibly being touched by other processes that are not SAS related.

 

Or if any SAS hotfixes or upgrades have been applied perhaps the hotfix checked to see if the version of the file is the correct one.

 

Which time to use I would say depends on the purpose of the file monitoring: use or change. You may end up needing both.

Kurt_Bremser
Super User

Most backup software does a full backup every now and then to make handling of the incrementals easier, so that might be it.

And everytime sashelp.vtable or sashelp.vcolumn is used, SAS needs to scan through all datasets in all currently assigned libraries.

alandool
Quartz | Level 8

Thank you both ballardw and KurtBremser!

 

Good information. Yes, my next move was to ask our IT folks. KurtBremser hit on the reason I believe. I used sashelp.vtable recently and had several libnames set. Thank you both for your help.

 

Forever learning . . .

Alan

alandool
Quartz | Level 8

Actually, @Kurt_Bremser sashelp.vtable reply was the answer to this issue, I believe

 

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