Trying the mod above for myself, I have created custom template in custom dir with the neccessary mods.
Then, I am guessing here, I tried these commands
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/proftpd.conf
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event remoteaccess-update
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event reboot
to get the custom to change the original template. But this does nothing to setings within the original template, however, where am I going wrong with my expand commands ?