On 1 Sep 2001, at 4:25, Laurent Martelli wrote:
> I'm trying to mirror some files located on a ftp server with wget. But
> I can't get it to work. Here's the command that I run :
>
> wget -r -l inf -nr -S -P$HOME/backups/bearteam -nH ftp://www.bearteam.org/bearteam/
[snip]
> --> LIST
>
> 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for /bin/ls.
>
> 0K @ 27,99 KB/s
>
> 226 Transfer complete.
> total 40
>
> drwxr-sr-x 2 laurent laurent 4096 ao 10 19:56 arban
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 laurent laurent 494 jui 9 10:17 basic.css
[snip]
Wget is having trouble parsing the /bin/ls listing because the
abbreviated month names are in French.
You could try persuading your FTP server to run in the standard default
"C" locale. I've never done that, but I think it involves unsetting the
LANG environment variable in the script that starts your FTP server.
