[thcipriani@deploy1001 wdqs (master % u=)]$ python Python 2.7.13 (default, Sep 26 2018, 18:42:22) [GCC 6.3.0 20170516] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import os >>> os.lstat('blazegraph-service-0.3.1-SNAPSHOT.war') posix.stat_result(st_mode=33204, st_ino=44698721, st_dev=64768, st_nlink=1, st_uid=10977, st_gid=500, st_size=74, st_atime=1540834178, st_mtime=1540834157, st_ctime=1540834157) >>> stat = os.lstat('blazegraph-service-0.3.1-SNAPSHOT.war') >>> os.utime('blazegraph-service-0.3.1-SNAPSHOT.war', (stat.st_atime, stat.st_mtime + 1)) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in OSError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: 'blazegraph-service-0.3.1-SNAPSHOT.war'