Re: ftp server issues

[Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>]

  In message <Pine.SOL.4.05.9907291227060.22455-100000@luna>you write:
  > >   > ncftp ...egcs/releases/gcc-2.95 > ls -l
  > >   > drwxrwsr-x   2 220      65516         1024 Jul 29  1998 .
  > >   > drwxrwsr-x   6 220      65516         1024 Jul 28 06:39 ..
  > >   > -rw-rw-r--   1 220      65516      5734825 Jul 29  1998
  > >   > gcc-1.1.2-2.95.diff.bz2
  > > No, the dates are fine.  the problem in on your side.  Let me guess,
  > > ncftp on a linux bux?
  > > 
  > > jeff
  > Does ncftp in general handle dates incorrectly on linux?
There's been one other person that has reported problems of this nature
(bogus dates).  He was using ncftp on a linux box and we were able to 
absolutely
rule out the date provided by the egcs ftp server.  Unfortunately they didn't
have another non-linux box to do any cross testing with.

Actually I do see that you're using ncftp (I missed that earlier).  I would
recommend you try a couple things.

  * Try ncftp from a non-linux machine and see what results you get.

  * Try a normal ftp client from the same linux machine your originally used.

Those two tests ought to help bound whether or not the problem is in ncftp or
something else on your linux box.
jeff