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- Date: 20 NOV 92 21:04:40 GMT
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- X-RFC822-From: adelman (Kenneth Adelman) @ TGV.COM
- From: adelman@TGV.COM
- Subject: Re: Dates on files when using NFS client
- Organization: The INFO-MULTINET Community
- Message-ID: <36A00FB320NOV92210440@TGV.COM>
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- > We've run into a glitch which I hope can be easily solved. We want to
- > transparently keep our anonymous ftp archives accessible from our VMS
- > machine on our HP-UX, with the TGV NFS client pointing to the device.
- > Then, define the MULTINET_ANONYMOUS_FTP_DIRECTORY to a directory tree on
- > the device defined by the logical created with NFSMOUNT. So far, so good
- > (or so it seems -- if this is a bad idea, please let me know).
-
- > When this is done, a DIR command in an ftp session to the VMS machine gives
- > today's date as the file date. In fact, doing a DIRECTORY/DATE at the VMS
- > level within that tree gives today's date. A VMS DIRECTORY/DATE=MODIFIED
- > on the NFS mounted device at the VMS level shows dates which are in
- > accordance with our Unix machine (which is what we'd prefer to broadcast on
- > the VMS host, as well).
-
- > Is there any way to achieve this (i.e., what didn't we read in the manuals
- > that we should have)?
-
- FTP displays the file creation date, so since it agrees with
- DIR/DATE the problem is not in FTP. I'd get a
- TCPDUMP/SNAP=1500/HEX/RPC=ALL of the packets between the NFS Server
- and NFS Client and lets look at what dates the NFS Server is
- returning.
-
- ken
-