Running on a Solaris system.
I tried using the 'utime' command in Perl and it didn't work.
From the UNIX console I did touch -m 0515173398 logfile.xxx to change the date to Sun 17 May 1998 05:33:00 PM and this works fine. (Just to be sure I understand the touch command.)

In Perl:
 system("touch","logfile.xxx"); This works and sets the modification date and time to the current date/time.

However when I add parameters:
 system("touch","-m","0515173398","logfile.xxx");
to specify the modification date and the date/time, I get a message in the error.log. The message reads:
touch: cannot change times on logfile.xxx

How can I get this command to work with the parameters?

Any suggestions/help would be much appreciatiated. Thanks
Don.

PS. My ultimate goal is to use variables as in:

system("touch","-m","$datetime","$filename");

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In reply to Changing file modification date. by Anonymous Monk

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