[SLUG] ls files amended in the last five minutes

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

Did I miss a response, or does no-one know why my command

find / -amin -5 > myRecentFiles.txt

which is supposed to list files amended in the last five minutes
should list thousands of files including
/foo/bar/graniteukltd-Sep-2003.com

Ah. That file was apparently amended on the 25 November 2011. Any idea
what might have given my system such prescience? I've not changed the
date since I set Linux up.

But still
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/16x16/apps/gnome-terminal.png
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/cursors/bottom_side
/usr/share/icons/Bluecurve/cursors/left_ptr
are listed. None of the cursors files have been amended since 2003.

So, I want to run a simple, basic Linux command and end up with two
new mysteries and my initial question unanswered. How bloody
irritating :-)

J

>> Ahem, actually find / -mmin -5 is for files with contents changed
>> five
>> minutes or fewer ago. Maybe
>
> So. That command >myfile.txt gave me 2655 files, teh contents of which
> were supposedly changed in the last five minutes.
>
> Do we believe that?
>
> I mean, granted there are shedloads of OS type stuff such as:
> /proc/2301/cmdline
> /proc/2301/stat
> /proc/2301/statm
> /proc/2301/maps
> /proc/2301/mem
> /proc/2301/cwd
> /proc/2301/root
> /proc/2301/exe
>
> for presumably process 2301, which possibly haven't actually been
> written to disc yet (otherwise 2655 files every five minutes, my hd
> would melt surely), but files I know for sure shouldn't have been
> altered for a while, eg. /foo/bar/graniteukltd-Sep-2003.com, a copy of
> a web server log are listed.
>
> Is my command wrong?
>
> And anyway. There's no mysql error log listed, so I'm escalating to a
> mysql list to see what gives.
>
> J
>
>