Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:43:19 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ls time/date format from ftpd Message-ID: <200802140043.19132.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200802091904.01935.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <200802091904.01935.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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Solved.
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 07:04 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> The default output from ls in a normal shell on my system
> is
> mode links owner group size month day time/year filename
> corresponding to LANG=C or en_US...
> For most other locales month and day are swapped, including
> mine { LANG=en_AU.ISO8859-1 }.
>
> When I access my account from another machine via ftp the
> ls command always reports day before month whether or not
> I attempt to set the locale. All this suits my sensibilities
> but it upsets MS Windows. Mounting under windows as a network
> place MS becomes very confused in trying to interpret directory
> listings in which the day precedes the maonth.
>
> Is there someway to force ftpd to report ls according to the
> LANG=C default so that I can successfully access through windows.
>
> Any ideas please?
>
> The FreeBSD system is 6.3-Release and the windows W2K.
>
> Malcolm Kay
It seems ftpd was started manually by root via /etc/rc.d/ftpd
with LANG=en_AU.ISO8859-1 set.
Autostart at boot of ftpd fixes problem.
Sorry for the noise.
Malcolm Kay
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