Ftp-WG: mdtm and mlsd commands

On 25 Jan 2004 at 5:46, Anthony R. Gold wrote:

> >   | I've found both clients and servers which allow mdtm to be used to
> >   set the | modify-fact of files on servers, but I don't see that
> >   documented in any | RFC or proposal.
> >
> > Anything that does that is broken, it is a query command only.  There are
> > no standardised "set attributes" command, for any attributes I'm aware of
> > (possibly excluding the name...)
> 
> That's a real shame as it prevents FTP from being used in mirroring.


Our FTP server for NetWare supports a site specific command. I think we copied this 
idea from some other server, but I can't recall, its been 10 years.

site chmdtm <filename> <modtime> [<acctime>] -- change modification/access time of 
file


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