From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: XeCycle Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Excessive questions about "file changed on disk" in tramp ftp Date: Fri, 03 May 2013 12:30:29 +0800 Message-ID: <87zjwck7mi.fsf@xc.laptop> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1367555743 14098 80.91.229.3 (3 May 2013 04:35:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 04:35:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 03 06:35:42 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UY7ig-0006rr-1B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 May 2013 06:35:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50014 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UY7if-0003hU-GF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 May 2013 00:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60702) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UY7iQ-0003gV-FV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2013 00:35:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UY7iM-00033E-3P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2013 00:35:26 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42218) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UY7iL-00033A-SX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2013 00:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UY7iK-0006Y6-IA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 May 2013 06:35:20 +0200 Original-Received: from 59.78.37.25 ([59.78.37.25]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 May 2013 06:35:20 +0200 Original-Received: from XeCycle by 59.78.37.25 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 03 May 2013 06:35:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.78.37.25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PexDBTkvjJDhlfYfHAw5lsGdvnI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90461 Archived-At: Dan Espen writes: [...] >> I'm unable to verify the time on the remote machine. I have only >> FTP access to that. However, time reported in dired is correct, >> always earlier than current time. > > How is "earlier than the current time" correct? That is, the time listed in dired for the remote file is earlier than my local system time. E.g. remote file 23:34 vs local 23:35. > Sounds like someone's time isn't right. My local system shall be correct. I run ntp at times, and the adjustment was always within a second. >> Or, can I simply turn off this checking for remote files? Or for >> this server? > > Don't know, just know that I've seen the issue and the problem > occurred because NTP had died and was not restarted. > > At the same time "make" was pretty confused about what needed to be > built and what didn't. > > Make sure your local system has the correct time, then contact the > admin on the FTP server and get him to correct his time. I am sure of my local system. I decided to inhibit this check for remote files. Thanks anyway. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591