For one reason and another (playing with time settings to do some testing on ntp and some security policies we're using) I've got a whole slew of files with atime's somwhere in the future (around 2020).
I've managed to fix all the 'regular' files, find / -anewer /root/current -exec touch -r /root/current {} \; did the trick nicely.
Only problem is 'soft' sym link files; touch doesn't seem to want to update their timestamps, which means running aide throws up bucket loads of 'xyz atime is in the future' warnings, while these can be ignored does raise a question on how, short of zapping and recreating the link, I can get them back to somewhat sensible times....
TIA,
R.
Solution: RTFM page for touch... doh! just needed to add -h to the touch command.
/me going back to the hole I live in and hiding my shame.
[solved] updating atime on sym links
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