Cron job help

Would like to change a file date/time

[Go_Madrid]

Not sure if I'm in the right forum for this, but I'm running Linux on an Apache webserver and I would like to know if it's possible to setup a cron job that just changes the date & time of an html file without changing the content. thanks.

[chris_f]

I'm afraid I don't know the answer to your question. However, by me posting this you should get an answer quicker.

One question though. Why would you want to do that?

[snafu]

man touch

[ndjp]

touch -m FILENAME

But why?

[jatar_k]

could you make spiders think your files are updated so it always respiders the pages?

[Go_Madrid]

Thanks for the replies - I would like to try it to see if the page is spidered more often by the search engines if they think it is regularly updated.

[SmallTime]

I can't think they would be fond of the idea.

[satanclaus]

This place is so cool because I'm always learning something new.(never used touch before)

Go_Madrid the engine you're targeting would probably do some sort of comparison between new and old versions of the page other than a date check. Page size check for example.

Perhaps you should just make your pages dynamic in some way instead of just changing the stamp.