topic Re: Problem with FTP and dateformat in Operating System - HP-UX

Problem with FTP and dateformat

Schneider_10 — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 09:52:55 GMT

I've detected some strange things with ftp. By opening an ftp connection to some of our HP-UX servers I see that files which have been created during the beginning of march shown in a strange date format. The month march will be displayed with the german name. When I login to the same servers with an account to the shell and listen all the files in the directoy ( to which I have before access to with ftp) all fils are displayed with the normal date format. Has someone an idea what the problem could be? Thanks for any help!!

Re: Problem with FTP and dateformat

Steve Steel — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:48:25 GMT

Hi

ftp uses the LANG out of
/etc/rc.config.d/LANG

Check it on the machine.

Normal login will set lang

Steve Steel

Re: Problem with FTP and dateformat

Schneider_10 — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 11:48:47 GMT

Hi,

thanks for your answer! This information help me a little bit. But what I need to know why in ftp the month will display at M??rz and in the normal shell login as march. We don't set any LANG variable in our profiles.

Re: Problem with FTP and dateformat

Ralph Grothe — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:10:16 GMT

Could it be that the ls binary copy in the change root environment of the ftp server (e.g . ~ftp/bin/ls) is deviating in any way from the "normal" ls from /sbin or /usr/bin?
I have no idea, but read the manpages of ftp, ftpd, ls to find out what environment/locale/i18n settings are influencing their behavior.

Re: Problem with FTP and dateformat

Ron Kinner — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 18:47:10 GMT

Suspect it's a .profile or .login getting involved. Are you the same username in both cases?

Ron