Re: Name changes

My first guess would be that this is not related to the FTP server, but the
command which IE is constructing to send to it...

Probably the first thing to do is to get the WU-FTPD daemon to log the commands
it receives, and then see what is being sent by your client's client, by
examining the syslog.

You can set this either via the "log commands" option in the ftpaccess file,
or by ensuring the "-L" command line switch is passed to the daemon when it
starts.  The former is recommended, as the latter may mean the user's password
can end up in the syslog.

You'll need to have the syslog.conf file on the server machine set up to handle
these appropriately, of course.  If I remember correctly, WU-FTPD logs its
commands as "daemon.info"...)

If you can see from the log that the filename being received as part of the
command already includes the timestamp portion, then you can be sure that
the issue lies with the way your client's IE is building the command, not
with the server itself.

If the filename doesn't include the time, then I'm not sure I can help
further, as I don't recall any capability built into the standard WU-FTPD
daemon to munge the file names it receives.

Cheers, Bob

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 02:24:47PM -0500, Richard Beaver wrote:
> We recently switched our FTP service from Unix to Linux(Suse v10). I now 
> have one client that tells me the file names are being changed when they 
> get to our FTP server.
> The following is an example.
> 1. File is originally named(on outside vendor machine) as  2006-07-25 
> issue.tab
> 2. Through IE, my client opens up our FTP site and drags the file from 
> the vendor site to our FTP site. Let's say the current time is 10:47am.
> 3. As soon as the file gets to our FTP site the name of the file now has 
> the current time appended to it, making the name of the file 10:47 
> 2006-07-25 issue.tab
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on what's going on here and how can I stop 
> the time from becoming part of the file name?
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard

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Bob Luckin      [email protected]      "Coder, adapt; FTP Ada, redo C"