Problem with FTP and dateformat

[Schneider_10]

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!!

[Steve Steel]

Hi


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

Check it on the machine.


Normal login will set lang


Steve Steel

[Schneider_10]

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.

[Ralph Grothe]

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.

[Ron Kinner]

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

Ron