Re: ftp server issues

["R. Kelley Cook" <KCook@IBM.net>]

On 29 Jul 1999 21:50:18 +0200, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

>  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

 [snip]

>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


Based upon that listing, I would suspect that the bug only rears its ugly head 
if date-of-file == today

BTW -- under OS/2 ncftp 2.3.0 gives:

ls -la

total 67978
drwxrwsr-x   2 220      65516        1024 Jul 29 13:35 ./
drwxrwsr-x   6 220      65516        1024 Jul 28 06:39 ../
-rw-rw-r--   1 220      65516     5734825 Jul 29 13:23 gcc-1.1.2-2.95.diff.bz2
-rw-rw-r--   1 220      1002      7365029 Jul 29 13:08 gcc-1.1.2-2.95.diff.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 220      65516     9800415 Jul 29 13:29 gcc-2.95.tar.bz2
-rw-rw-r--   1 220      1002     12864284 Jul 29 12:59 gcc-2.95.tar.gz
 . . .