vfs.file.time

[Huy Dinh]

What exactly does vfs.file.time return? Does it return ctime?

Actually, it is not mtime which is returned, so do you know how to make Zabbix figure out the mtime of a file?

[elkor]

vfs.file.time[file,<mode>] where mode is modify | access | change. the documentation does list modify as the default though.

you could also use vfs.file.cksum[file]

[Huy Dinh]

Stupid me, I didn't realize that, though I read the docs. Mea culpa

But it still doesn't work. All modes return some timestamps that don't have aynthing to do with the real times, apart from the date. But thanks for your help.

[elkor]

noproblem, haven't tried the time item myself yet, it could be bugged.

if you need mtime I would suggest using checksum, I use it and it works.

[Huy Dinh]

I just tried vfs.file.cksum, but it doesn't return the mtime, either.

The docs say that vfs.file.cksum returns a checksum of a file - I'd assume that the checksum doesn't have that much to do with the mtime of a file, does it?

[elkor]

no, but if the checksum changes.. you'll know when the file was modified.

(sorry I never replied to this weeks ago.. I just found the thread today again on a search)

[napel25]

I think it returns the number of seconds between 1 jan 1970 and the last modification of the file.
With the fuzzytime function it's easy to check this value with the current time.