<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 3, 2019, 06:24 Masaru Kitajima <<a href="mailto:thirstytraveler@mac.com">thirstytraveler@mac.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Mr. Harald<br>
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Thank you so much for the detailed information. I tried two commands which<br>
you kindly suggested. The results are as below.<br>
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[root@vhost /var/log]# stat /var/run<br>
File: `/var/run' -> `../run'<br>
Size: 6 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 symbolic link<br>
Device: 9094h/37012d Inode: 74932926 Links: 1<br>
Access: (0777/lrwxrwxrwx) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root)<br>
Access: 2019-10-02 19:50:39.000000000 +0900<br>
Modify: 2019-02-20 18:21:23.000000000 +0900<br>
Change: 2019-02-20 18:21:23.000000000 +0900<br>
Birth: -<br>
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[root@vhost /var/log]# stat /var/run/dovecot<br>
File: `/var/run/dovecot'<br>
Size: 740 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 directory<br>
Device: 9169h/37225d Inode: 4136984558 Links: 5<br>
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 97/ dovecot)<br>
Access: 2019-10-02 17:20:18.243640196 +0900<br>
Modify: 2019-10-02 16:50:44.268614218 +0900<br>
Change: 2019-10-02 16:50:44.268614218 +0900<br>
Birth: -<br>
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I wonder why“British”are not set.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Until very recently, there was no Linux API through which the file's birth time could be retrieved, and `stat` had to always show an empty field.</div></div>