Y2K status for WU Anon ftp
Mike Sargent
Thanks for the quick response! If I had known you were on this mailing
list I would have just walked upstairs and asked you :^). By the way,
is the a "primary" web site (url) that addresses wuftpd issues?
Thanks and Best regards,
Mike
> >Mike said :-
> >> I'm new to this list so I apologize if I'm asking a question that
> >> has been asked before .... but ... what is the Y2K status of the WU
> >> Anonymous ftp server? What versions, if any are compliant, and what
> >> versions have issues?
>
> I replied :-
> >As I recall, at one point there was some code which added two digits for
> >the year after "19" before printing the date, but this was fixed to output
> >four digits some time ago.
> >
> >Since the actual timing calls are standard UNIX, the values they return
> >should be Y2K compliant (but you might have some fun if you're still
> >sys-adminning in 2037....).
> etc...
>
> Oops. This answer was potentially misleading. I believe that the specific
> code in wuftpd is Y2K compliant, but the date/time calls it makes go through
> the operating system. So whether the daemon is really Y2K OK depends on
> the operating system on which you're running it. If the OS date/time calls
> are Y2K compliant, then the daemon should be.
>
> Apologies to the rest of the list for my earlier response - I happen to know
> that Mike's ftp server runs on a UNIX box which should be compliant, and
> that knowledge was implicit in my reply. But someone else reading my answer
> could have been misled into thinking their server was OK when it might not be.
>
> I'll go away now and let my neuron rest for a while...
>
> Cheers, Bob
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>
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