web-serving does not update a file's atime?

[Nathan Kinkade]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:35:45AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I tried to use stat(1) to see the last time a file was downloaded
> through Apache.
> 
> To my surprise, all three dates displayed by stat are long ago, even
> though the web-server's log is showing downloads from a just a few
> hours back.
> 
> The file-system used to be mounted noatime, but I turned that option
> off some time ago. If I read one of those files (with head(1) or
> file(1), for example), the atime is updated. But if Apache serves it
> out -- it is not... There is no caching in Apache either.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks!
> 
> 	-mi

Is this all running on your local machine?  If not, is it possible that
there is a proxy server between you and the host running Apache?
Perhaps a transparent proxy?

Nathan
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