On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Argentium G. Tiger wrote:
Well, I've got an interesting problem involving ftp mirroring and timestamps on files apparently being altered by timezones.
I'm creating an NFS share on my fileserver that has the contents of all 6 SuSE Linux 6.3 cd's, recursively copied preserving dates and times.
I've also got a perl script that will connect to a couple of SuSE Linux FTP mirrors, and if the either the file size or timestamp differs, the file is flagged for download/update into the local NFS share.
It's been working wonderfully, except that I noticed that a *LOT* of files were flagged for download... I got suspicious when I saw the dosutils/exceed directory downloading *every* file. Surely these couldn't have been updated, could they?
So... I checked them out more closely. As an example, here's a file from the CD (US distribution):
SETUP.EXE 51,200 bytes 10/29/1999 07:48
And on ftp://ftp.twoguys.org/SuSE/current/dosutils/exceed
SETUP.EXE 51,200 bytes 10/29/1999 16:48
And on ftp://212.122.128.32/pub/SuSE-Linux/6.3/i386.de/dosutils/exceed
SETUP.EXE 51,200 bytes 10/29/1999 10:48
Notice the problem? Look at those times... The files are actually identical, byte for byte. I've got a time zone problem it seems.
So... is there anything I can do to dynamically adjust the dates and times of files I'm looking at when I'm connected via FTP? Is there some global environment setting, or some FTP instruction that will adjust times by plus/minus a few hours?
Thoughts?
How about using GMT on all the sites? -- Bob F EMail FBob@wt.net A Truly Wise Man Never Plays Leapfrog With A Unicorn... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/