[lug] File times and time change

[Hugh Brown]

There is a nice package called mirror which is a perl script that uses ftp
to mirror a site.  You can selectively mirror and you can tell it to just
set the timestamps to be the same as on the server you are mirroring.

Hugh


"Warren Sanders"
> 
> I like to keep the complete list of update packages (RPM) on my system and
> freshen from there.  During my usual download of newer packages ncftp also
> checks time differences.  My system is set to change +/- 1hr Spring and Fall as
> most do.  Now I find all the files are exactly 1hr out of sync with RedHat's
> (-1).  Does all my system file times change or is RedHat's?
> 
> With that is there a better way of setting them all ahead one hour to sync with 
> RH instead of downloading them all over again each time change?