More details on why it's not possible without working on the inode directly: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=changing+timestamp+symlink&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF- 8&oe=utf-8&selm=98kf9l%24se9%241%40decurion.mit.edu&rnum=3 -- D! Darin W. Smith AIM: JediGrover