Greetings, monks, both great and small!

I'm a sysadmin and I want to keep track of what modules get used and which ones don't. The obvious way to do that is to wander through them and check the access times on each file. Unfortunately, if I use cpan's autobundle to make a list of all modules, it reads each file's VERSION which updates the access time, making access times useless for my purposes.

What do think is the best way to go here? I'm thinking:

• hack ExtUtils::MM_Unix to save and reset the atime. (Cpan's autobundle routine uses ExtUtils::MM_Unix to get the VERSION out of each file.)
• write my own script to make the autobundle snapshot and make it reset the file's atime
• figure out something besides atime to track module usage
• something else I haven't thought of yet?

Just to restate in case I've been unclear (as usual) I want to be able to make a list of all my installed perl modules and a list of which ones get used the most. I want to be able to do this on a regular (nightly?) basis.

Thanks!
--Pileofrogs

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