Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 8225
ncftp reports incorrect file timestamps for Microsoft FTP 4.0 servers
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
ncftp seems to report incorrect file timestamps for Microsoft FTP servers, in particular, Microsoft FTP Service Version 4.0 (IIS under WinNT?). The time reported is several months in the future. The regular ftp client reports the correct time. Following is a sample. [rlm@www rlm]$ ncftp ftp://ftp.quantum.com NcFTP 3.0.0 beta 19 (June 11, 1999) by Mike Gleason. Connecting to 204.212.103.137... service Microsoft FTP Service (Version 4.0). Logging in... Anonymous user logged in. Logged in to ftp.quantum.com. Current remote directory is /. ncftp / > ls Disk_Firmware/ Tape_Firmware/ Utilities/ h_group/ ncftp / > ls -l d--------- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 0 Sep 6 08:15 Disk_Firmware d--------- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 0 Jan 24 2000 Tape_Firmware d--------- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 0 Mar 5 2000 Utilities d--------- 1 ftpuser ftpusers 0 Feb 20 2000 h_group ncftp / > quit Thank you for using NcFTP. Ask your system administrator to try NcFTPd Server! http://www.ncftp.com [rlm@www rlm]$ ftp ftp.quantum.com Connected to service.quantum.com. 220 service Microsoft FTP Service (Version 4.0). Name (ftp.quantum.com:rlm): anonymous 331 Anonymous access allowed, send identity (e-mail name) as password. Password: 230 Anonymous user logged in. Remote system type is Windows_NT. ftp> ls -l 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls. 07-06-99 08:15AM <DIR> Disk_Firmware 12-20-99 03:35PM <DIR> h_group 11-24-99 03:27PM <DIR> Tape_Firmware 01-05-00 03:25PM <DIR> Utilities 226 Transfer complete. ftp> quit 221
I can confirm that bug which includes betas up through beta 21. Since I may not be getting beta 22 finished soon enough, here is a quick patch to apply to the libncftp/glob.c source file: *** glob.c Thu Jan 6 01:44:38 2000 --- glob.c.new Thu Jan 6 01:44:52 2000 *************** *** 208,214 **** (void) memset(&ftm, 0, sizeof(struct tm)); ftm.tm_isdst = -1; cp[2] = '\0'; ! ftm.tm_mon = atoi(cp + 0) + 1; cp[5] = '\0'; ftm.tm_mday = atoi(cp + 3); cp[8] = '\0'; --- 208,214 ---- (void) memset(&ftm, 0, sizeof(struct tm)); ftm.tm_isdst = -1; cp[2] = '\0'; ! ftm.tm_mon = atoi(cp + 0) - 1; cp[5] = '\0'; ftm.tm_mday = atoi(cp + 3); cp[8] = '\0';
Fixed in ncftp-3.0beta21-2. Thanks for the patch.